Natalie Thomas

Born in Brisbane 1967, Natalie Thomas is a Melbourne based artist and writer whose seamless blend of contemporary art and activism, has both outraged and delighted the conservative arts establishment.

An expert in the art of collaboration, she was one of nat&ali from 1999 to 2005, employing riot grrrl strategies to critique and parody the mores of popular culture and the ingrained hierarchical structures of the arts scene. As a member of Melbourne collective DAMP, Nat participated in the 6th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT6) 2010 at the Queensland Art Gallery and Gallery of Modern Art.

Developing a successful solo career, Thomas was included in The National 4: Australian Art Now at Carriageworks in 2019 with Postcards from the Edge, a work that invited significant audience participation and generated an alternate life through social media.

Nat's popular blog, nattysolo (‘one woman, one camera, no film’) focuses on the social side of contemporary art; a widely followed and ongoing endurance performance project that fuses gossip, innuendo and scathing cultural criticism in the form of a social archive. https://nattysolo.com

Nat Thomas’s work has been shown widely at institutions including the National Gallery of Victoria, the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Gertrude Contemporary Melbourne, Canberra Contemporary Art Space and the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane.