Natalie Mather is a contemporary artist who lives and works in Melbourne. Her practice primarily consists of abstract paintings and small-scale experimental sculpture. Mather’s paintings revolve around dystopia and the grand, cinematic romanticisation of the ‘end of the world’, where the glittering promise of new technologies invariably descends into apocalyptic chaos.
These ideas are examined through the framework of the formal elements of painting. Mather sources imagery from decaying industrial landscapes, folded paper maquettes and geological formations. She also extracts still images from mainstream doomsday films and Soviet science fiction cinema as part of her visual research and transmutes them into abstract scapes and gleaming structures.
Anita Traverso Gallery
Until 25 April, 2015
Melbourne
Split Kiss Thick Feast, 2012, oil, acrylic and enamel on linen, 160 x 120cm
Courtesy the artist and Anita Traverso Gallery, Melbourne