My name is Lesley Turnbull and I’m an artist currently based in Edinburgh. My practice moves between photography, performance, writing, audio and sculpture, exploring identity, memory, visibility and queer lived experience.

I’m interested in the things that get remembered, forgotten, obscured or changed along the way. Landscape, portraiture and storytelling are recurring threads, often mixed with a bit of experimentation and play. Fog, blurred horizons and personal stories turn up regularly too — partly because I’m fascinated by what sits just beyond view and by the space between what we see and what we know.

I push images through both analogue and digital processes, experimenting with ways of obscuring, distorting and skewing perspective — or queering it — to see what might emerge. I like the element of surprise this can bring where visibility and invisibility shift, images become uncertain and something unexpected starts to reveal itself.

I have exhibited internationally across Australia, Europe, Scotland, Iceland and China. Recent solo exhibitions include The Invisible Lesbian (Edinburgh, 2024) and Evoking the Invisible Lesbian (Melbourne, 2023).

My work has been supported through residencies, commissions, funding, artist talks and research projects exploring place, queerness, archives and experimental image-making.

Contact on: camerahood@gmail.com

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