Natalie Tozer

Nat Tozer explores narratives of the underground to unearth objects and knowledge. She likes to dig, cast, frottage and film the ground, splicing an expanded geological inquiry with science fiction and mythology. Working with time-based processes and materiality she is interested in folk tales, situated embodied ecology, tunnelling, anarchist anthropology and the collective.

She collects tarseal crumbles and loves beach combing (if it includes a long romantic walk all the better).

Recent shows include The Metamodern in Literature, Art, Education, and Indigenous Cosmologies: An Interdisciplinary Symposium at AUT, Companion Pieces at Public Record, Māter Mater at Silo 6, National Contemporary Art Award finalists exhibitions at Waikato Museum, He Iti and Piki Mai: Up Here for mothermother at the Aotearoa Art Fair, Femisphere 4 (online), and Salted Earth at Sosage Gallery.

Tozer holds an MFA with first-class honours from the University of Auckland. During her time at Elam 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, an academic scholarship, the Emerging Artists Show at Sanderson Gallery and represented Elam School of Fine Arts at the Guangzhou Graduate Art Fair.

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 digital artists. They’ve also been involved in numerous mentoring programs and provide technical support and advice for emerging digital artists.

She is also the founder and kaitiaki of mothermother which continues to support curatorial activism for underrepresented artists since 2019.