Born in Laidley, Queensland, Australia, Gabrielle Turnbull has worked as a visual artist and arts educator for over two decades, exhibiting her work for a similar period.

Gabrielle works in a contemporary manner using mixed media making mostly paintings and drawings on a variety of surfaces. She makes constant references to the shapes, colours, textures, patterns and rhythms of the natural world  experienced  around her. She is equally interested in the same elements found in the man-made environment .Mark-making is a characteristic aspect of Turnbull's work with the linear marks sometimes referred to as calligraphic. She is also fascinated by the alluring power of light playing on the surfaces of everything around her and endeavours  to express this in her work.