Bobinska Brownlee are delighted to present a solo exhibition by Noëlle Turner.

In Laminar marks a new body of paintings by Noëlle Turner that contain a still yet charged energy. By combining pigments with chemicals, she allows the colours to fragment, crystallise, or erode the canvas. Using a staining technique, the canvas is soaked in water as she paints, encouraging unpredictability as she works with the flow of liquid to dictate the outcome. Muted tones swell, fade and are pierced through by fleeting shards of colour.  

Laminar flow, where water moves at high speed in parallel layers without turbulence, creates a glass-like surface, appearing frozen in time despite its rapid movement. For Turner, this phenomenon serves as a resonant metaphor: the illusion mirrors the sensation of feeling immobile - crystalised, unable to move forward in time. But in moving with the stillness, unperturbed, there is a quiet sense of direction, a space where breathing feels possible again.

Documentation images: Ksenia Burnasheva

Noëlle Turner (b.1993) is a British artist based in London. Her paintings reflect on the processes of geological and biological change. She makes patterns of colour driven by chance, working with the flow of water to dictate the outcome.  By combining pigments with chemicals and water, she allows the colours to fragment, crystallize, or erode on the canvas. Interested in sites where creation and decay co-exist, she uses bleach as a medium to paint symbols in her work, encoding data in states of metamorphosis. 

Noëlle Turner completed her BA in Fine Art at The Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford, 2015, and her MFA in Fine Art at Goldsmiths University, 2024. Recent exhibitions and residencies include Dumping Ground, Hypha HQ, co-curator, group exhibition, Summer 2024; Sim Residency, Iceland, 2023;  New Breeders, group exhibition, Grölle Galerie, Wuppertal, Germany, 2023; 3331 Arts Chiyoda Residency, Tokyo, Japan, 2022; Ancient Vessels, APT Gallery, London, December 2022, co-curator, group exhibition.

Private view: Wednesday 13 November 6-8pm

Artist talk/tour Saturday 18 January 2-6pm