Natalie Mather is a painter who is interested in the process of a work’s construction, that is, how a “finished” work emerges from a series of drawn and painted layers. Mather’s work is concerned with paint as a material, a material that can be applied, manipulated and compressed to create forms that evoke the geological, the mystic and the architectural. Natalie aims to make paintings that are essentially precious objects, but arise out of a practice that rejects preciousness in favour of the provisional and the experimental.
2009 Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Visual Arts (Painting), Australian National University School of Art, Canberra
National Undergraduate Scholarship for Visual Arts, ANU
2010 Natalie Mather, Jas Hugonnet Gallery, Canberra
2010 Just a little bit precious, m16 Artspace, Canberra
2010 Five After Seven, Alliance Française, Canberra
2009 Graduating Exhibition, ANU School of Art, Canberra
2009 ANU Drawing Prize, ANU School of Art Foyer Gallery, Canberra
2009 Space, flesh, m16 Gallery, Canberra
2009 View:culture, Benedict House Art + Design Festival, Queanbeyan, NSW
2008 Italian Language Week Prize Finalists Exhibition, Canberra
2008 Graduating Exhibition, ANU School of Art, Canberra
2007 From Japan with love X, Canberra