Olivia Turner is an artist and researcher living and working between Scotland and North East England.

Her practice moves between sculpture, performance and moving image to explore themes of illness, wildness, feminism and bodily agency. Her recent artworks perform interventions in the Shefton Collection of Greek Art and Archaeology.

Recent exhibitions include Voicing Objects, Great North Museum: Hancock; O (Symptom), Confabulations; Confusion of Tongues, AirSpace Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent; Reality Check, The Newbridge Project, Gateshead; Women and Power, National Trust; Bish, Bash, Bosh, We Are The North, Liverpool; Circus Between Worlds, Glasgow International; DECAPOD, AirSpace Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent.


Voicing Objects (2024)

Moving Image

Run time: 23:21

Voicing Objects was created in response to selected clay artefacts from the Shefton Collection of Greek Art & Archaeology and presented as a solo exhibition at the Great North Museum: Hancock.

O (Symptom) (2021)

Moving Image

Run time: 13:33