About Paula Turmina

Paula Turmina is an artist living and working in London. She completed her BA (Hons) in Painting at Wimbledon College of Fine Arts, UAL, in 2016, and is currently enrolled in the second year of MA Painting at the Slade School of Fine Art, UCL. In 2019, Turmina was awarded a residency programme with Winsor & Newton in collaboration with The Fine Art Collective, and was the recipient of the Zsuzsi Roboz Scholarship with the Chelsea Arts Club Trust. She has exhibited at the Fundación Cultural de Providencia in Chile, and in several group shows in the UK, including at Saatchi Gallery, London, Offshoot Gallery, London, Exposed Arts Projects, London, and The Crypt Gallery, London.

Turmina’s work explores mythology and magic realism, in order to speculate around new future perspectives. Through a range of diverse media including painting, analogue film and sculpture, she creates expansive, imaginary visuals drawn from her personal experience, ecological issues, and Latin America’s colonial past.

Turmina’s research investigates how art-making operates as worldbuilding, and within belief systems, as well as how it seeks to form a different relationship between living organisms that inhabit the earth. Often extrapolating and observing the absurdity of these relationships, she combines different visual elements from human, animal and plant-like characteristics. She also takes into account the connection between the past and the present in Brazil, where she grew up. The artist creates an image as a way to develop critical thinking, and of creating a ground of unlimited potential for staging meanings without finding concrete answers.

Education

MA Fine Art: Painting, Slade School of Art (UCL), London, UK - 2018 - 2020 (due to covid graduating in 2021)

BA Hons Fine Art: Painting, Wimbledon College of Arts (UAL), London, UK - 2013 - 2016

Graphic Design Technical Course, University of Passo Fundo (UPF), Passo Fundo, Brazil - 2010 – 2012

Exhibitions

‘Monsters’ - The Function Suite, London, UK (upcoming) - 2020

‘Casa da Escada Colorida’ - ArtRio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (upcoming online) - 2020

‘RCA & SLADE Graduate Show’ - Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery- 2020

‘London Grads Now’ - Saatchi Gallery, London, UK - 2020

‘CAC Trust Recipients 2020’ - Chelsea Arts Club, London, UK - 2020

‘The Land of No Evil’ - Offshoot Gallery, London, UK - 2019

‘Neo Norte 2.0’ - Exposed Arts Project, London, UK- 2019

‘Plants Speak, If We Listen’ Symposium II - Chinsenhale Studios, London- 2019

‘Plants Speak, If We Listen’ Symposium I - Blacktower Projects, London- 2019

‘Cartoons and Cereals’ - Offshoot Gallery, London, UK- 2019

‘Alter Us Collective’ - The Old Baths, London, UK- 2019

‘Hoc Eva’ - Eve Leibe Gallery, London, UK- 2019

‘Speculative Immersion: Multimedia Anthropology in the Anthropocene’ - UCL, London, UK- 2019

‘OPEN: Emotional Practices’ - RCA London, UK- 2019

‘Lead: Performance Festival’ - Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK- 2019

‘Research Images as Art/Art Images as Research’ - UCL Doctoral School, London, UK- 2019

‘Anthropologies’ - TAM, Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria‘Pulling Teeth’ - ASC Gallery, London, UK- 2019

‘Hackney Wick Open Studios’ - Unit 16, London, UK - 2018

‘Neo Norte’ - Fundación Cultural de Providencia – Santiago, Chile‘Latin America Myth Deconstruction’ - Crypt Gallery - London, UK- 2018

‘Being Together is not Enough’ - Five Years Gallery - London, UK- 2018

‘The Six Senses’ - Galeria Melissa - New York, U.S. - 2018

‘Fragmentario x Plantaphilia’ - Booth at SXSW Festival - Austin, Texas, U.S. - 2018

‘Emerge’ – Stour Space - London, UK - 2017

‘Degree Show’ – Wimbledon College of Arts, London, UK - 2016

‘Open Studios’ - Block 336 Gallery, London, UK- 2016

‘Merton Arts Trail’ – Morden Hall Park, London, UK ‘Space’ - Jonathan Ross’s Gallery 286, London, UK- 2015

‘Synchronicity #3’ – Rolling Stock Gallery, London, UK- 2015

‘Capsticks exhibition’ - London Capsticks Law Firm, London, UK- 2014

‘Lucidez’ - Guadalupe, Porto Alegre, Brazil - 2013

 ‘Plural Singular‘ – Banx, Porto Alegre, Brazil - 2013

‘Sala Ilustrada’ – Urban Arts, São Paulo, Brazil - 2013