About

Hi. I’m Rae Turpin (she/her), an interdisciplinary artist, researcher, writer and community consultant based in Southampton, UK.

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My practice moves across and between creative, academic and community spaces - engaging with processes of dis/belonging, care, disposability, and more-than-human world-making. I work with walking, writing, and other creative participatory facilitation to explore how we live and 'become-with' others, particularly in contested or overlooked places. These often include urban wilds, contested sites, and edgelands; spaces that resist neat categorisation but are rich with friction, matter/meaning, and regenerative potential.

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I bring over a decade of experience in the voluntary and cultural sectors, particularly in the fields of youth work, arts, environment, welfare and gender-based violence. Alongside this, I’ve worked extensively with charities and organisations as a consultant - supporting participatory consultations and research projects, strategic planning, communications, bid writing and impact reporting.

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Currently a PhD researcher at Goldsmiths, University of London, sitting between the Social, Therapeutic and Community Studies and Art Education departments, I explore multispecies placemaking and community-ing in the urban wilds of Southampton (more here).

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With a neuroqueer approach, this informs my sensitivities to participation, relational nuance, and fosters alternate ways of being and knowing.​