Looking at the history of glass and mirrors, from using them to see the future, to their implications of vanity, Jessie Turner bends and captures light in solid yet transient objects; photographs, and glass itself. Here, light and reflection become sentient beings that flit and dance across the surface of the mind and the world around us. By depicting ecological pasts and futures through reflection, the interactions and hybridisations of these materialities in Scrying in Oil Spills demonstrate the inherent interweaving of the natural and the human-made.
Jessie Turner (she/her) investigates speculative futures through photography and sculpture, focusing on the intertwining of the future and past, to create a layered time that positions the natural world as an all-consuming, ever present entity with sentience far outweighing our own. By investigating specific moments in history and their relevance to contemporary and future times, Jessie’s works evoke a fantasized melding of time and place to create hallucinogenic worlds. She graduated from Honours at the Victorian College of the Arts and has shown at Museum of Australian Photography, George Paton Gallery, and Centre for Contemporary Photography.