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Raewyn Turner

Raewyn Turner is  an interdisciplinary artist investigating cross-sensory perception and the uncharted territories of the senses.  Her  multi-sensory, mixed media works have been shown in numerous national and international exhibitions and performances, including Museum of Contemporary Art, LA, Parque de las Ciencias, Granada, Spain, 11th Prague Quadrennial of Scenography and Theatre Architecture 2007,Prumyslovy Palace, Prague, Argentina, Australia, Italy, Canada, Singapore, The Georges Pompidou Center, and Te Papa Museum of New Zealand.

Her work includes video, smell, media works, coloured light, artefacts, and live performance. She has an extensive background in working with coloured light and contemporary music with orchestras, experimental music, contemporary dance, and theatre, beginning in 1975 with Split Enz (for eight years) on international tours working in Britain, USA, Canada, Australia and Europe, working in major performance theatres, arenas and stadiums. 
Her writing has been published in 'Art of the Biotech Era', International Congress Synaesthesia, Art and Science 2009, 2007,  Generative Art 2006, 2004, and Performance Research 2003 'On Smell'.

She is currently working on PLUME  in collaboration with molecular biologist Richard Newcombe, exploring olfactory sensing; and in a collaboration with electronics artist Diana Burgoyne (Canada). Their work Re/Sense, in a Co-Production with the Banff New Media Institute,2009, was exhibited and presented in MuVi 2 at the 111 Congreso Internatcional de Sinestesia, Ciencia y Arte 2009, Spain and IF’09:Stereo, Vancouver, and they will create and exhibit new work at MiC Gallery August Sept 2010