Natalie Wood
Artist Statement
I am a contemporary multimedia artist and curator who creates and exhibits art work that cohabits the areas of art and historical research. I am particularly interested in locating and investigating counter-narratives, experiences and forms of resistance, marginalized peoples convey through media and other forms of popular culture.
My work includes the use of recyclable & reconstituted materials, drawing and painting, printmaking, video, video performance and web-based art. In this project I am investigating the creation of paper garment prototypes that could move someone or a disruptive force through space, time and ideas safely.
Natalie Wood, Energy Cells and Time and Space Disruptor with Space Travel Helmet, abca, pigment, wires, mirrors, beads, shells, found objects, bone, variable sizes, limited series of 8 unique pieces
Bio
Natalie Wood is a contemporary multimedia artist and curator who creates and exhibits art-work that cohabits the areas of art and historical research. Her work includes the use of recyclable materials, drawing and painting, printmaking, video and web-based art.
Natalie studied at OCAD, and received her MA in Art Education from the University of Toronto in 2000. Her videos and performances have been presented in venues such as OCAD Gallery, Inside Out Film Festival 2015, Nuit Rose, Trinity Square video, The Caribbean Tales film festival 2014, T&T film festival 2013, New York Mix Film and Video Festival, Images Festival 2006 and Mpenzi Film and Video festival where she won the Audience Choice Award in 2006). Her art works and collaborative art practices have been presented nationally and internationally in solo exhibitions at WARC, Zsa Zsa Gallery, Caribbean Contemporary Art Centre 7; several group exhibitions (The Church St Mural Project 2014, Peterborough Art Gallery 2012, Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art 2007), International Art Fairs (Artist Project Toronto 2010, Nuit Blanche 2007, Toronto Alternative Art Fair International). She has received awards from the Toronto, Ontario and Canada Council for the Arts, the 2006 New Pioneers Award for contribution to the Arts in Toronto and was nominated for the 2006 K. M. Hunter Award for Interdisciplinary Arts Award for her web-based project Kinlinks.
