Solo exhibitions

Knee Deep - elemental outpost

Knee Deep is an immersion into the turbulent deconstruction and reformation experienced by the artist while living in Moorang-Moobar Country in the Northern Rivers during the 2022 floods. These surreal dreamscapes from the mountain offer a window into the intensity and liminality of that time. When all that seemed solid became liquified, the seams were torn open, dissolving the illusion of stability and revealing the precipice from which humans are hanging at this moment.

2021

Passage - bsa project space annexe

Prose, Belonging, Vision, Holdfast, Foothold, & Untethered
Timber, plywood, nails & paint. Size varies but are around approx 30cm x 30cm

  • Oct 2021. Passage is a small collection of assembled works by Natalie Wilkin created on Widjabul Wia-bul Country in the Bundjalung Nation. These small gestures are part of Natalie's broader investigations into themes of transition, decomposition, de-colonialism and belonging. The materials used to create this body of work come from offcuts collected in her Dads shed over the last 20+ years. The pieces are remnants of many family projects. When reassembled, they become potent markers for the passage of time we go through together.

2014

Ex Terra Incognita - The Mildred Complexity Gallery, Narrowsburg New York

Natalie created her own strike camp and she retreated to the bush. Inhabiting this narrative in the place of her birth she was forging strong connections back to her community and investigating more complex ideas of gender and history. The Camp was installed for three weeks. Natalie had a smaller studio set up in an old train carriage not far from the camp where she would document and catalogue her observations. - excerpt from exhibition statement written by Clayton Lewis

Multi-sensory exhibition that included suspended framed photography, textile works, large hanging paper panels (featuring cyanotype, felting, paint and hair) looped soundscape, ceiling intervention with eucalyptus and golden rod & and augmented reality app that played videos when hovered over photographs.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2023

BAM Art Prize Finalist Exhibition

Phantom Flesh

20x15cm Digital Print on Stone

Presented by Byron Arts Magazine (BAM) in partnership with the Northern Rivers Community Gallery. The BAM Art Prize promotes awareness of the arts in the Northern Rivers by presenting a national art prize within the region. The exhibition showcases finalist artworks shortlisted for the 2023 prize. This non-acquisitive prize is open to all Australian artists and brings together an outstanding collection of contemporary artworks.

2022

Material thinking - angnes contemporary

Force of nature, Chase the thread, World weaver, Walk within, & Wabi sabi velociraptor. Fabric, thread, talismans linen and reclaimed workwear. Exhibited with Cedar Jeffs / Natalie Wilkin / Bell Raine / Julia Stockhausen / Lisa Arronis / Tanja Taljaard / Pru Bleasdale / Josephine Ehlers / Gabrielle O'Neill / Sabine Pick 2021

2021

Loose Ends - BSA Project Space Annexe

Mud Material Study No.1 & No.2, 2021 30x18cm
Mud, Hemp, oil paint, & pva on timber.

  • loose end

    1 : something left hanging loose
    2 : a fragment of unfinished business

    Group Show with Cedar Jeffs / Diane Kelly / Natalie Wilkin / Bell Raine / Julia Stockhausen / Lisa Arronis / Tanja Taljaard / Pru Bleasdale / Josephine Ehlers / Gabrielle O'Neill / Sabine Pick / Casey Arnaud / Sandra McKenny


2019

Science Fictional Thinking - A Guide to the Field gallery

Lifeline, 2019
Wool, linen, & calico naturally dyed with Eucalyptus bark, onion skin and bracken fern.

  • Dec 2019 - Feb 2020This show asks how science fiction can be a tool for artists to anticipate meaningful notions of the future. Sci-fi is not simply a genre, but a vehicle for expressing collective dreams and fears about our ever-changing world. Nor are the aesthetics of sci-fi limited to the space age, for we do not seem destined for a future of technological salvation. The varied works in this exhibition are therefore grounded in trans-historical thinking. They are imaginative leaps, speculative propositions, compromises, and even fantasies.

    Group Show with Vincent Castro / Jorge Colombo / Mark Dion / Joy Feasley / Hope Ginsburg / Norberto Gomez / Heather Greene / Jeffrey Jenkins / Alex A. Jones / Cameron Klavsen / Abby Lutz / Kristyna Milde / Marek Milde / J Morgan Puett / Rebecca Purcell / Ryan Rennie / Alexander Rosenberg /Alex Schechter / Matthew Solomon / Paul Swenbeck  / VIROSA / Allison Ward / Natalie Wilkin / Amy Yoes


Factory - A guide to the field gallery

Gatekeepers 2019
B/W Giclee print on Bamboo archival paper. 22 3/8" x 10"- Displayed with Mark Dion collection

  • Factory is a show hearkening to earliest sites of production – the household –  evolving into what we understand as the industrial revolution; on to the rapid evaporations of a technological 21st-century. Here, artists are factories, as if coming full circle. Creative workers and thinkers tell stories, weave histories, sport reflections, make demonstrations, share collections, manufacture clothing and hold events throughout the spring exhibition.

    Group show with Barbara Botting / David Brooks / Jorge Colombo / Barbara de Vries / Mark Dion / Hope Ginsburg / Dennis Gordon / Gary Graham / Brooke Grant / Heather Greene / Amanda Heidel / Aaron Hicklin / Jeffrey Jenkins / Alex Jones / Cameron Klavsen / Abby Lutz / Pam Mayer / Kristyna Milde / Marek Milde / Rebecca Purcell / Garnett Puett / J. Morgan Puett / Joshua Quarles / Gina Siepel / Laura Silverman / Allison Smith / Matthew Solomon / Caroline Wallner / Allison Ward / Paul Ward / Natalie Wilkin / Amy Yoes / Mary Lou Zelazny / Jim Zivic / and others swarming the topic


2018

encampment - a guide to the field gallery, Mountain Dale New York

Walk Within 2018
Applique felt, digitally printed patch, studs and talismans onto vintage army jumper

  • October 2018 - February 2019

    Encampment, A Guide to the Field's inaugural exhibition, was an installation collection of conceptual products that offer expanded possibilities of comfort, camping, modern life, and shifting notions of home in an ever-migratory society. From stained linen textiles to recycled soaps, from she-wolf tables to U&I wall-and-ceiling systems, visitors to the project gallery were offered materials and ideas to enhance domestic activities of resting, cooking, cleaning, and playing-being.

    Group show with David Brooks / Jorge Colombo / Barbara de Vries / Mark Dion / Hope Ginsburg / Gary Graham / Brooke Grant / Jeffrey Jenkins / Alex A. Jones / Cameron Klavsen / Leigh Claire La Berge / Abby Lutz / Kristyna & Marek Milde / J. Morgan Puett / Rebecca Purcell / Gina Siepel / Shelley Spector / Allison Smith / Caroline Wallner / Allison Ward / Natalie Wilkin / Caroline Woolard / Amy Yoes //

2017

HumanUfactorY(ng) Workstyles: The Labor Portraits of Mildred’s Lane - Hauser & Wirth Somerset

  • Jorge Colombo, Mark Dion, Jeffrey Jenkins, J. Morgan Puett, Rebecca Purcell, Natalie Wilkin and other Fellows in collaboration.

    Group Show. Curator, Adam Sutherland

    20 Jan – 7 May 2018, Hauser & Wirth Somerset

    Hauser & Wirth Somerset is delighted to announce ‘The Land We Live In – The Land We Left Behind’, curated by Adam Sutherland. This ambitious survey exhibition explores the contradictory nature of society’s relationship to the rural. The presentation features over 50 international artists and creatives, as well as works on loan, by artists working from the 1500s to the present day

    NOTE: Labor Portraits also exhibited at:

    -Handwerker Gallery, University of Ithaca, NY 2015

    -Helen Day Art Center, Stow VT 2016 - Intimacy and Materiality: The Labor Portraits of Mildred’s Lane

    -SAIC Sullivan Galleries, Chicago IL 2014 - A Proximity of Consciousness: HumanUfactorY(ng) Workstyles


2014

HumanUfactorY(ng) Workstyles - SAIC Chicago

HumanUfactorY(ng) Workstyles: The Motion Journals of Excerpts from the User’s Guide to Mildred’s Lane. A costume drama of the everyday, 2014. Collaborating with J Morgan Puett and Mildreds Lane Fellows. As part of A lived Practice School of the Arts Institute Chicago.


2012

Mildred’s Lane and The Mildred Complex(ity): The Living Archive. MOMA New York

Tintype images created by Corey Riddell & Natalie Wilkin + workstyles cabinet created in collaboration with the fellows of the Alchemist Shack session. Dimensions variable
Mixed Media
2012

Installation views at the Museum of Modern Art, in New York; for the exhibition,
Century of the Child: MoMA Studio: Common Senses. Curators: Pablo Helguera, Laura Beiles, Sarah Kennedy.


The Alchemist Shack - Mildreds lane NY

A three week creative fellowship at Mildreds Lane exploring the trope of the Ghost story, along with lots of Alchemist shack building craziness. The resulting work included Tintype Spirit photography, Work Styles Chart, and the Taxonomy of a ghost story. It was all exhibited at MoMA in NYC as part of the Common Senses exhibition.