Natalie Scholtz (b. 1981) is a painter and drawer whose work draws on a personal-political narrative rooted in the settler state of Western Australia. Raised by immigrant parents of Persian and South African heritage, Natalie’s art delves into the intricate realm of the in-between, where faces blend and the boundary between subject and object blurs.
Working primarily with mixed media on canvas, paper and board, she navigates the ever-shifting landscape of race, gender, humanity and non-human entities. Her creations capture the messy, fleshy intricacies that lie within the fluid constructs of identity. She aims not to paint a single truth or reality, but to drift somewhere between dreams, cultures and emotional states of being.
Contact Details
Website: nataliescholtz.com
Phone: +61 424 757 074
Email: hello@nataliescholtz.com
As the Mind Drifts explores the quiet threshold between waking and dreaming, where the self begins to dissolve. A blurred portrait merges with the suggestion of a bird. The figure is both me and you, suspended in a space where memory, imagination and desire overlap. As daylight slips into night, the painting lingers where consciousness wanders, inviting us to drift into reverie and quiet transformation.
Materials
Acrylic, pastel and oil stick on canvas
Dimensions
950 × 950 × 70 mm
Price/ NFS
$2,900.00
Imagined Scape evokes the sensation of floating through Australian landscapes. Produced following a year spent painting and travelling Australia in a van, the work presents a fictitious cluster of ocean and land scattered with introduced threats to native flora and fauna. I feel a sense of melancholy that this country remains soft and forgiving, while continually being overwhelmed by its beauty.
Materials
Mixed medium on canvas
Dimensions
970 × 1370 × 50 mm
Price/ NFS
$4,200.00
Body+Scape is a small study. I am continually making daily sketches, scratches and studies of imagined people, landscapes and forms.
Materials
Mixed medium on canvas
Dimensions
330 × 450 × 50 mm
Price/ NFS
$1,200.00
Seeing U is a small study created while experimenting with new paints and mediums. I am continually making daily sketches, scratches and studies of imagined people and landscapes. We were heading out, I had been op-shopping and was wearing lipstick. I wanted to party and play.
Materials
Mixed medium on canvas
Dimensions
350 × 450 × 50 mm
Price/ NFS
$1,200.00
Mother Fish depicts an imagined, abstracted fish. As a vessel, it carries a tangled mix of Australian bush and a subtle female figure, held—or perhaps restrained—within the arms of the mother fish. There is a lingering sense of decay, anxiety and excitement within the work. Sometimes I cannot distinguish between excitement and fear. It feels as though something is moving.
Materials
Mixed medium on paper
Dimensions
560 × 750 × 50 mm
Price/ NFS
$2,200.00
Australian is based on a photograph taken during a year spent travelling and painting around Australia in a van. A blurred self-portrait dissolves into an abstract figure in thongs beneath a vast night sky. The work carries Australianisms, humour, familiarity and contradiction. As a migrant child, my sense of Australianness is layered. This gritty, playful and occasionally crass portrait navigates belonging, diaspora and contemporary Australian identity.Materials:
Acrylic on canvas
Dimensions
900 × 700 × 50 mm
Price/ NFS
$2,900.00