Natalie-Jane Rutherford

In my work I often draw inspiration from my own personal life, as a coping and understanding mechanism, for the deaths I have been surrounded by during my university years. This acceptance of the inevitable death can be seen in my work, by the act of burying myself as if to symbolise the end of a journey, my return to nature, and how I have now been reborn, emerging from the pressure of the stones that represent the struggles of life. I work within multiple disciplines in my art and engage in a variety of materials and processes, which works well with my experimental approach to my work, pushing the boundaries and merging different processes together. I work mainly with fabrics, film photography and video, but pushed myself to incorporate sculptural works to create a cohesive collection of work. I am planning on continuing my art practice whilst studying for an MA in curating; focusing on experimental film photography pushing my work even further out of its boundaries.