NATALIE MATHER

Natalie Mather is a contemporary artist who lives and works in Melbourne. Her practice primarily consists of abstract paintings and small-scale experimental sculpture. Mather’s paintings revolve around dystopia and the grand, cinematic romanticisation of the ‘end of the world’, where the glittering promise of new technologies invariably descends into apocalyptic chaos. These ideas are examined through the framework of the formal elements of painting.

Mather sources imagery from decaying industrial landscapes, folded paper maquettes and geological formations. She also extracts still images from mainstream doomsday films and Soviet science fiction cinema as part of her visual research and transmutes them into abstract scapes and gleaming structures.

2005–2009  Australian National University, Bachelor of Arts/ Bachelor of Visual Arts (First Class Hons).

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010 - Natalie Mather, Jas Hugonnet Gallery, www.hugonnet.com.au
2011 - SOFT PEAKS, Canberra Contemporary Art Space Manuka
2012 - Sabotage, Jas Hugonnet Gallery, www.hugonnet.com.au COLLIDE-O!, Seventh Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
2013 - Safe, Jas Hugonnet Gallery, www.hugonnet.com.au

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2009 - Space, Flesh. M16 Artspace, ACT ANU School of Art Graduating Exhibition. Canberra, ACT
2010 - Just A Little Bit Precious, m16 Artspace. Five After Seven, Alliance Francaise, Canberra, ACT
2011 - Blaze 5, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Gorman House.
           the churchie emerging art prize exhibition, Brisbane, QLD Post Lantern Night Exhibit, The Parlour, Melbourne, VIC
2012 - Petite Public Art, You Are Here festival, Canberra, ACT
           Trouble In Paradise, Paradise Hills Gallery, Richmond, VIC.
           The Green Room, m16 Artspace, ACT Here and there, CCAS Manuka
2013 - differing perspectives, ANCA, ACT
2014 - offline, Nishi Gallery, ACT HUE, Nishi Gallery, ACT
2015 - AT_SALON² ANITA TRAVERSO GALLERY, VIC

2004 - Etisoppo magazine, “DREAM”.
2011 - Blaze 5 exhibition catalogue, February.
           the churchie exhibition catalogue.
2012 - BMA magazine. Issue 388, “Cataclysmic Canvases” Author: Grace Carroll.
           Das Platforms - “Trouble in Paradise” http://www.dasplatforms.com/das_five_cent/trouble-in-paradise/ Author: Ramsay Nuthall.
           BMA magazine, Issue 404, Cover Image

SELECTED AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES
2005-08 - Australian National University, National Undergraduate Scholarship. Awarded for Visual Arts.
2009 - The EASS Alliance Français Exhibition Award.
           The Harris Hobbs Acquisition Award.
           The Peter Barclay and Dorothy Waldren Acquisition Award.
2010 - Canberra Contemporary Art Space Emerging Artist Support Scheme Studio Residency.
2011 - Finalist - The Churchie National Emerging Art Prize.
2012 - Finalist - Qantas Contemporary Art Award (top 3)