Artist
Natalie Robertson
- Name
- Natalie Robertson
- Iwi/Ethnicity
- Ngāti Porou/MāoriClann Dhònnchaidh/Scotland
- Date of Birth
- 1962
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Biography
Natalie Robertson was born and raised in Kawerau, Bay of Plenty. After graduating with a Bachelor of Social Sciences in 1986, she travelled to England to work as a photographic assistant and freelance photographer. In 1997, she completed a Master of Fine Arts (First Class Honours) at the University of Auckland.
Robertson uses photography and moving image to explore Māori knowledge practices, and to advocate for ecologies and cultural landscapes. Through archival research and oral histories, her works reconnect narratives to their geographical marker. These works and the narratives that inform them acknowledge the land as a repository of ancestral memory.
Robertson uses photography and moving image to explore Māori knowledge practices, and to advocate for ecologies and cultural landscapes. Through archival research and oral histories, her works reconnect narratives to their geographical marker. These works and the narratives that inform them acknowledge the land as a repository of ancestral memory.
Artworks by Natalie Robertson (4)
Te Puna o Tangitauāki, Te Rimu
Natalie Robertson
2018
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A Red-Tipped Dawn - Pōhautea at Waiapu Ngutu Awa (7th August 2020)
Natalie Robertson
2020
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Tera te haeta e takiri ana mai! Behold the first light of dawn! (Waiapu Ngutu Awa, 7th August 2020)
Natalie Robertson
2020
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Buried house — Barton’s Gully (Mangarārā stream flowing into Waiorongomai river)
Natalie Robertson
2018
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