Natalie Hunter

Natalie Hunter creates photo-based installations, sculpture, and moving images that explore relationships between embodied experience, spatial perception, the senses, personal memory and identity. Her work studies the complexities of time, space, memory, and the senses in our digitally saturated culture through an interplay between image, material, and form. With a fascination for both image making and working with materials by hand her research and studio practice poetically investigates the shifting sensory experiences of light, colour, time, consciousness, and motion as they relate to memory and perception. 

Over the past twelve years she has produced multilayered and immersive photo-based installations working with transparent film, translucent silk, colour, reflective, and backlit films. She often employs and exploits the immaterial principles of photography - light and time - with the material aspects of sculpture; draping, folding, curling, and bending images in space over hand formed wood, metal, or acrylic glass armatures. Her evocative installations composed of image and sculpture create contemplative spaces and experiential encounters that become poetic meditations on the act of making, the fluidity of memory, and our relationships with the material and immaterial worlds we exist in. The translucency and mutability of her sculptures and images speak to the fluidity of thought and memory, and become meditations on temporality and impermanence. Witnessing the slow passage of light through time, her work reflects upon the nature of time and place, embodiment and being, the psychology of space, and consciousness in our image saturated world.