Articles by Natalie Andrews

About Natalie Andrews

Natalie Andrews is an artist working with a range of mediums, she has shown her work at the Hoxton Arches in London and is currently working on a number of 3d works alongside painting exploring the links between painting and sculpture,"I am interested in the way that we relate to one another and with space, how the environments we inhabit structure and dictate these relationships and create both opportunities for emancipation but also the deep alienation and separateness,"

The Rise of the Curator

08/06/2018 Natalie Andrews

New forms of power emerge all the time and for a while they escape criticism, but not forever! (read more)

Emilio Vedova, Icon of Radical Italian Art

29/05/2018 Natalie Andrews

The hero of radical Italian art in who painting is reinvigorated as the premier medium encompassing all others. (read more)

Creating Utopia & Dystopia

20/04/2018 Natalie Andrews

We recreate our myths everywhere, those which are beautiful and horrifying (read more)

Newness & Nostalgia In Art

17/04/2018 Natalie Andrews

The Idea of newness is an essential part of the function of art in modern times but what does that mean and how does newness form and change? Are we all prone to long for a past that never was or a future that can never be? (read more)

Aspects of Modernism & William Morris

13/04/2018 Natalie Andrews

As part of the exploration of the forming of Modernism Natalie Andrews considers the influence of William Morris via an object in the V&A. (read more)

Becoming of the Avant-Garde

10/04/2018 Natalie Andrews

Modernism and the avant-garde is the theme of the second part of Natalie Andrews exploration of the epoch and its influence on our time. (read more)

Brutalism, The Romance of Harsh Places

06/04/2018 Natalie Andrews

Brutalisim is part of every major city in the uk, is it worth maintaing or a terrible scar on the landscape? (read more)

Simon Bill, as Presented and in Aspect

06/04/2018 Natalie Andrews

Simon Bill is a polymath and deserves a long hard look from a curious audience his work probes perception itself. (read more)

Modernism Under Attack (in the past and by the present)

03/04/2018 Natalie Andrews

Comparing fiction with history we explore the reactions to modernism, which is stranger you decide. (read more)

Something worth finding? Augmented Reality

30/03/2018 Natalie Andrews

Pokémon has 65 million monthly users and makes use of ‘augmented reality’ but does it really add if anything to its users lives? (read more)

Understanding The Modern, it happened in the past!

27/03/2018 Natalie Andrews

The 19th century is where our ideas of the modern come from so what can that time say to us? (read more)

Shamanism, Art and Ritual

27/03/2018 Natalie Andrews

Shamanism has a place in the arts and famously Joseph Beuys pioneered this, but what is shamanism and what’s it for? (read more)

Nestor Pestana Speculative Designer

23/03/2018 Natalie Andrews

Nestor Pestana is a speculative designer making work that explores the modern world through a philosophers eyes. (read more)

Hypernormalisation & Modern Propaganda

20/03/2018 Natalie Andrews

Agents of truth and manipulation fight for posession of our soles Adam Curtis can help us understand the battlefield (read more)

Phil Goss Modern Impressions

16/03/2018 Natalie Andrews

Spontaneous and Impressionistic images record the life of a travelling artist and recall early 20th century optimism (read more)

Art and Politics (its all about transformation)

13/03/2018 Natalie Andrews

The transformation of a world veiw is possible but does art approach the challenge? (read more)

霸权 Chinese values make the world China!

13/03/2018 Natalie Andrews

Chinese hegemony is it something to worry about? It is if your uncomfortable with the West becoming more undemocratic and prone to long term leaders who stay on for, stability. (read more)

Michael Radford Art Photography & Signs of Power

09/03/2018 Natalie Andrews

Michael Radford is a highly talented art photographer with a knack for surfaces but there are layers to consider also! (read more)

Blended Dystopias, lovingly created nightmares

06/03/2018 Natalie Andrews

We have been imagining ‘Chimerica’ since Blade Runner in 1982 many years before the word was coined! The nightmare is made of the worst aspects of both worlds unbridled consumerism, industrial waste and authoritarian rule…er fantasy? (read more)

Joana Pestana Designing to Change the World

02/03/2018 Natalie Andrews

Can Graphic Design Change The World? (read more)

Do We Understand Modernism? We Better!

27/02/2018 Natalie Andrews

Modernism is in the news because as it turns out not that many people ever really got it! Since we have long since left this epoch behind and since its exerts such an influence maybe we should make more effort! (read more)

Sinicisation, Making The World In China

27/02/2018 Natalie Andrews

Remaking the world in China. Its long been thought that our products would change China but it seems China is not so ready to be co-opted! our products and brands are easily transformed through sinicisation. (read more)

Cynical Realism & The New Chinese Middle Class

20/02/2018 Natalie Andrews

Cynical Chinese art makes liberal westerners feel good but what will we make of the new proud Chinese middle class? (read more)

China/Art/Soft Power: speak softly and carry a big stick!

13/02/2018 Natalie Andrews

China is developing its soft power portfolio; state propaganda, Confucius institutes, strategic investment and of course, art. (read more)

How Did China Tame The Market?

16/01/2018 Natalie Andrews

To fully understand the impact of China in the modern world its important to have an idea of how the self styled communist state extricated the free market from democracy. (read more)