Rae Turpin

Embodied more-than-human sense-making

Rae Turpin (she/her) is a visual artist/writer/researcher untangling the messy more-than-human intersections of dis/belonging and ‘becoming’. Her practice uses embodied, walking and gestural methods in collaboration with(in) Southampton’s urban wilds and edgelands. She approaches "sense-making" as a twofold undertaking: understanding (or ‘making sense’) of intricate relational entanglements, and working with, from, and towards embodied senses themselves.

Currently a PhD student at Goldsmiths, London, Rae’s practice-research explores the limits of a more-than-human ethical community-building, focusing on lessons from litter and other so-called ‘undesirables’.

She also curates Multispecies Belongings, an online commons of more-than-human knowledges and practices, here.