Natalie Tozer
b. 1979, Te Awamutu.
Lives and works in Tāmaki Makaurau
Natalie Tozer explores narratives of the underground to unearth objects and knowledge. She combines expanded geological inquiries with science fiction and mythology. Working across moving image, materiality and social sculpture, Tozer is interested in folk tales, the revision of mythologies into local ecologies, tunnelling, anarchist anthropology and network theories. Her large-scale video installation Deucalion & Pyrrha was selected for the Sluice Biennial in Lisbon, Portugal in 2022.
Tozer holds an MFA with first-class honours (2022) from the University of Auckland Waipapa Taumata Rau. During her studies she received The Lightship Award which funded the presentation of an open-air 110m video work at The Ports of Auckland; was selected for a summer scholarship and received an academic scholarship. Recent exhibitions include ABSTRAXT ABSTRAXT at Northart (2024), The Metamodern in Literature, Art, Education, and Indigenous Cosmologies: An Interdisciplinary Symposium at AUT (2023), Deucalion & Pyrrha, Sluice Biennial, PADA Residency, Lisbon Art Weekend (2022), Māter Mater at Silo 6 (2022) and Companion Pieces at Public Record (2021).
Tozer is a director at LOT23 Media which specialises in delivering high-production moving image for visual artists. LOT23 is responsible for providing the filming, editing, compositing, VFX and technical direction for some of Aotearoa’s most successful moving image artists. They’ve also been involved in numerous mentoring programs and provide technical support and advice for emerging digital artists.
She is the founder and curator of mothermother which continues to support curatorial activism for underrepresented artists since 2019 and is a current Professional Teaching Fellow at Elam School of Fine Arts.
