Natalie (she/her) is a multidisciplinary artist from London whose work explores connections between people and their personal histories. She honours her sensitivity to materials and flexible approach as a toolkit, working across drawing, painting, printmaking and animation.
Driven by a need to create space for reflection, Natalie facilitates interactions with the work that offer moments of reprieve. Influenced by her relationship to nature, she handmakes some of her materials in order to understand their potential. She builds surfaces with velvet-like textures reminiscent of otherworlds to evoke a visceral response.
‘The Things I Have Inside’ is an articulation of the innate spiritual guidance that steers and protects her in life. Inspired by her ancestral lineage, the series is an extension of her documentation of her grandparents' experiences coming to London from Dominica in 1960 and Spain in 1965 respectively.
Natalie is on the Drawing Year 2023/4 at the Royal Drawing School and studied Illustration at the University for the Creative Arts, graduating in 2013. She is a Trustee at Packed Lunch and Content Manager for Middleground magazine.
Photo by Kat Brown
2024 The Drawing Year, Royal Drawing School, London, UK (scholarship)
2023 The Drawing Intensive, Royal Drawing School, London, UK (scholarship)
2021 Leadership, Creativity and the Arts, Sotheby's Institute of Art, London, UK (bursary)
2013 BA Hons Illustration, University for the Creative Arts, Kent, UK
2024 The Things I Have Inside, Dulwich Festival (West Norwood Library & Picturehouse), London, UK
2023 SFSA Drawing Open, no format Gallery, London, UK
2022 Comfort as Routine, Art in Mind, Brick Lane Gallery, London, UK
2024 Borgo Pignano, Tuscany, IT
2024 Window mural and pop up shop (launching late Aug), Shop from Crisis Elephant & Castle, London, UK