Natalie is an interdisciplinary artist and designer based in Vancouver. She grew up in Radium Hot Springs, a small town in the Canadian Rockies. Her work seeks out spaces between art, design, performance and daily life. Finding it difficult to settle on one form of expression, Natalie simply decided to do it all. She seamlessly switches from set designing to creating thought provoking installations. Her visual art practice is materially motivated and driven by curiosities in anthropology, archaeology, human/nature relationships, morphology and formal arrangement.

Natalie also has a great passion for travelling, which makes her job particularly enjoyable as she often travels for residencies or commissioned work. In her early career, she largely focused on fashion and design, out of which came her award winning clothing line – Hunt&Gather.  This clothing features handmade items with an emphasis on natural materials and contemporary design. Branching out from fashion, she started a year long project in 2010 called Makeshift that received worldwide attention and press. This is the endeavor that made her re-evaluate where her true passions lie, acting as both the catalyst and segue into a more art dedicated career. As Natalie herself has said, design is what helps her pay the bills but art is what she really wants to invest her time into. Currently, there are many up and coming projects that Natalie has planned for 2017. She is ever-constantly exploring all her different ideas and ways she could utilize them in order to create art.

As one can most likely tell, Natalie has an impressive C.V that includes multiple awards, residencies, artist talks, interviews, businesses, and the list goes on. In 2012 she was a recipient of the Canada Council for the Arts International Residency award in Paris, France. Still, despite her busy schedule Natalie tries her best to be a mentor and teacher to aspiring art students. She has taken on a few interns in the past, and has taught at multiple schools including Emily Carr and UBC. Breaking the stereotypes of reclusive artist, Natalie has worked on many collaborations (in particular with the dance community). She finds the art community to be quite interconnected, and really stresses the importance of both supporting and making connections with fellow artists. Both incredibly sweet and ferociously hard working, Natalie is certainly making a big impact in the art industry that is being recognized by the public and her peers.

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