Artist
Natalie Mather
http://nataliemather.com/
Natalie Mather is a contemporary artist who lives and works in Melbourne, and is currently a Master of Fine Arts candidate at the Victorian College of the Arts. Natalie uses her painting practice to engine speculative ideas about fictive or ‘other’ spaces and ‘the future’. Her practice uses text, trompe l’oeil forms and galvanic colour to expand and collapse a sense of the ‘real’ within a continuous frame. Using praxis to speculate in this way, Natalie arrives at a broader purpose: through her painting practice she explores what it means to make paintings that demand ‘immersive attention’ at a time when it is ‘increasingly difficult to muster the attentional resources necessary for immersion’. She investigates how can paintings encourage a slow gaze - ‘immersive attention’ - through the ways in which they are made.
Mather created the below collage for Special Issue s
