Meredith Turnbull
SOFT WORDS
15 March - 15 April 2023

Soft Words focuses on the formal qualities of softness and elasticity in light, objects and images. Softness can be delicate but it contains flexibility and strength. Soft Words is a communication strategy to reduce conflict in acute health settings and has been adapted for use in parenting and other communication contexts: as a strategy it foregrounds respect, empathy and warmth.

Meredith Turnbull’s practice is socially engaged, inclusive of intergenerational making, learning and practice. She focuses on inspiring material expression and democratising approaches to art.

Meredith Turnbull is a Narrm/Melbourne based artist, curator and writer. She completed a Bachelor of Art (Honours) in Art History at LaTrobe University in 2000, a Bachelor of Fine Art (Gold and Silversmithing) at RMIT University in 2005 and a PhD at Monash University in the field of Sculpture and Spatial Practice in 2016.

Meredith has developed projects for the National Gallery of Victoria, Heide Museum of Modern Art and the Ian Potter Museum of Art at Melbourne University. Recent works include the performance What does wearing something do? with Behn Woods at RMIT Design Hub in 2019 and the exhibition SHE TURNS at c3 Contemporary Art Space in 2017. Her artworks have been acquired for numerous private and select public collections including MUMA, Heide Museum of Modern Art and the Ian Potter Museum at the University of Melbourne.

In 2022 M: 33 published Meredith Turnbull: Objects a survey of 14 years of photographs of Meredith’s constructed tableaux.