Natalie Field:
2024 Leadership Pathway Mentor Fellow
2023 Exhibiting Artist
2023 Mentor
2022 Mentee
As a 2024 Mentor Fellow, Natalie developed a new leadership pathway in documentary arts. For her project, “Mapping Methodologies of Attention,” Natalie analyzed past methodologies used by Creature Conserve mentees and explored the transformative nature of artistic research operating at the intersection of art methodology and environmental pedagogy. She worked with five alumni projects that function within this framework of reciprocity, where knowledge is not only transformed but also transmitted through the work of art. She included her own project, A Murder of Crows, and used it as a site of experimentation, where methodologies were not simply applied but tested, troubled, and reimagined.
In 2023, Natalie’s work, “Falling,” was exhibited in our 2023 exhibition, Re-Imagining Conservation: From Many Viewpoints.
As a 2022 mentee, Natalie worked on her art project, “Museum of Extinction,” as part of her graduate school thesis. In her words, “The Museum of Extinction is a speculative museum of the future that curates a collection of animalARTefacts that reflect upon the 6th mass extinction by using taxidermy to make death visible through material form.
“Falling is a visualization of a 2021 study that concluded there to be an estimated 50 billion wild birds on planet Earth. That is 6 birds per person. A sharp decline from a similar study in 1997 that calculated there to be approximately 60 birds per person at the time.”
NATALIE FIELD is an interdisciplinary artist working within the framework of Speculative Taxidermy. Her artistic research delves into biodiversity loss, and the role of culture in turning the tide of extinction.
Norway
Instagram Handle: @nataliefield.art
Website: www.nataliefield.art