About

Bio

Natalie Hunter was born in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. She is the recipient of many Canada Council for the Arts Research and Creation Grants, and Ontario Arts Council Visual Artists Creation Project Grants. She has shown her work in public art galleries and artist-run-centres across Canada, including: Rodman Hall Arts Centre, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Smokestack Gallery, Hamilton Supercrawl, Hamilton Winterfest, University of Waterloo Art Gallery, Thames Art Gallery, Mississauga Living Arts Centre, Art Gallery of Windsor, Centre 3 for Artistic and Social Practice, Factory Media Centre, Hamilton Artists Inc., Latcham Art Centre, Museum London, Propeller Art Gallery, John B. Aird Gallery, Gallery TPW, University of Manitoba School of Arts Gallery, The Reach Gallery Museum, and Capture Photography Festival, among others. Her work has been featured in Hamilton Arts and Letters, Femme Art Review, The Gathered Gallery, Other Peoples Pixels Blog, Canadian Journal of Culture Studies, and BlackFlash Magazine. She holds an MFA from the University of Waterloo where she is a sessional instructor, and received an Excellence in Online Teaching Award (2017). She lives and works in her home city of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.



Artist Statement

Natalie Hunter is an interdisciplinary artist working between photography, sculpture, installation, and the moving image. Her work engages with the poetics of time, memory, temporality, chance, perception, the archive, and the senses - with an emphasis on embodied experience, perception, materiality, personal memory, and identity. She often employs and exploits the immaterial principles of photography - light and time - with the material aspects of sculpture in her installations. In both image making, sculpture, and their installation, light is fundamental to her process. With a fascination for both image making and working with materials by hand she explores the shifting sensory experiences of light, colour, and motion as they relate to memory and perception.

Over the past decade she has produced multilayered and immersive photo-based installations on transparent film. Working with translucent silk, transparent, colour, reflective, and backlit films, she drapes, folds, curls, and bends images in space over hand formed metal, wood, or acrylic glass armatures. Durational in nature, these sculptures and installations change based on the time of day, the angle of the sun, the quality of light, or a viewer's perspective. The translucency and mutability of her sculptures, installations, and images resonate with the fluidity of thought, memory, and the senses. Her evocative installations composed of image and sculpture create contemplative spaces and experiential encounters that become poetic meditations on the act of making, the fragility of memory, time and place, embodiment and being, and our relationships with the material and immaterial worlds we exist in.