Curriculum Vitae
Artists Curriculum Vitae Natalie Feather
Telephone: +44 (0) 7828 828 034
Email: nataliefeather@live.co.uk
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www.nataliefeather.com
Exhibitions/ Commissions
Auchinraith Primary School Blantrye – in collaboration with RMJM Architects –Photographic light Box Commission – October 2010 – January 2011
Street level Photography workshops Freelance teaching position – August 2010 to present
Mutter Shutter part 2 Book Launch – Scottish Mental Health – Street Level Photoworks – October 2010
‘Black and White’ – Group Show David Dale Gallery and Studios – August 2010
New Works New Worlds – Arches Exhibition – June 2010
Scotland in Europe Spring photography workshops – April/May 2010
Volunteer Internship – The Travelling Gallery, Edinburgh – March 2010
‘Mutter Shutter’ Book Launch – Trongate 103 – Street Level Photoworks 4th March 2010
Photo Workshops – ‘Scotland in Europe’ – November/ December/January 2009
‘Mutter Shutter’ – Solo Show Portal Gallery Govan. ‘Scotland in Europe’ public realm commission – October/November 2009
‘Drawn together’ – The Pentagon gallery, Pentagon Business Centre, Glasgow – August 2009
‘Kill Your Darlings’ Group Show, The Glasgow Collective, Shoreditch Town Hall London, 10th -17th July 2009
Degree Show – The Glasgow School of Art, 11th -20th June 2009
‘Infinite Safety’ – Solo Show, Assembly Galleries, Glasgow 19th May 2009
‘Nothing to Hold on too’- Solo Show, The Cell, Glasgow September 2008
‘Forgotten to Agree’ – Group Show, Wasps Studios, Glasgow, June 2008
‘Blixt’- Group Show, Newberry Gallery, March 2007
Prizes: Winner of the Landscape Drawing prize, The Glasgow School of Art, 2009
Education/ Qualifications:
Glasgow School of Art: Sept 2006 – June 2009 BA Hons Fine Art Photography – 1st class
Bradford College of Art: Sept 2004 June 2005 BTEC foundation Art and Design – Distinction
Commission and work experience:
Light Box Commission:
I am currently working on a photographic light box commission for Auchinraith Primary school in Blantyre; this project explores the transition from an old Victorian school to a new state of the art school designed by RMJM. I was commissioned to work and involve the children in the photographic process to create a series of light boxes which are being installed in the entrance foyer of the new school. This project has been a great way to engage others in the creativity of photography. I timetabled classes with the whole school, taking the children round the school on a creative walk, pointing out interesting features of the old building for them to take pictures of themselves with their own cameras. I also involved the classes in making collages and postcards of their experiences, thoughts and idea of the old and new schools.
Street Level Photo works
I work on a freelance basis for Street Level Photo works, teaching a variety of levels of experienced people black and white photography; these workshops are six weeks long and have helped me gain an excellent range of teaching experience.
Scotland in Europe: ‘Mutter Shutter’
Public Realm commission, I worked within the Govan community running photographic workshops at various drop in centres in Govan. I have implemented and set up a working dark room which enables local people of Govan to take part in workshops offering a service to a wide variety of people in order to share knowledge which may lead to a self sustainable practice for the participants; where people are able to build portfolios to get onto college courses and providing a place where people can experience and try something different.
I worked mainly with people seeking asylum, creating interesting photographic lessons helping them to learn both technical and creative skills. I was commissioned by Scotland in Europe to produce images for an exhibition as well as this; this included portraits as well as a variety of images taken during the workshops this culminated in an exhibition which was held as part of Black History Month in Glasgow. The classes and variety of people I worked with in the sector has given me a huge amount of experience and I feel confident working with large groups of people to encourage the facilitation and the benefits of the arts within community groups.
I was commissioned and funded to make a book which was launched in March 2010 as part of this project. I worked again with Scotland in Europe in October working with Scottish Mental Health, running photography workshops and making a book which again was launched at Street Level Photo works.
Artist Statement: Personal Practice.
My personal work is very much landscaped based; I am an experienced climber and mountaineer and hope to find ways of merging my personal and professional practice.
I am a lens based artists; my work is primarily concerned with ideas of landscape experience and as a climber my work negotiates ideas which are about surface, distance, familiarity and risk, as well new interpretations of the sublime experience. Through the work I draw attention to the importance of physical experience; therefore the work can be interpreted by a wider audience. Being able to engage with the viewer is important for the work, I use climbing as a springboard to make work which has a wider contemporary context, less specific to a climbing audience, thereby not alienating the audience. Geography and the understanding of sensuous elements is something which I explore in the photographic print, as well as the photographic field. I work mainly with photography but often cross disciplines to enhance my practice. Power, impact and movement are themes which I explore through drawing and participation.
The work I make continues to be influenced by the environment and the relationships people have with their environment; some of my work demands the participation and action of others as well as a knowledge of and understanding of the latency of the photographic image through work which translates the sensuality of being emerged in cloud, for example; blank white gradually changing to darker shades. My work is very much about the senses, it is important for people to participate; as people participate in the senses. There has long been a tradition for the visual encounter, I hope through my work to go beyond this, through a phenomenological encounter with heightened experiences. Physical substance is very important to me and I look for ways of expressing this as a visual artist.