NATASHA PIKE - BIO & CV
NATASHA PIKE - BIO & CV
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Natasha Pike is an Irish artist with an MA in Art & Process from Crawford College of Art and Design, IRL (2019), a BA in Fine Art from Falmouth University, UK (2007) and a Foundation Diploma from Manchester Metropolitan, UK (2002).
Natasha was based in Berlin for several years before returning her practice to Ireland where she uses text, paint and sculptural components to explore material relationships. Increasingly, the concepts within her practice, are a reflection on the precarity and resilience of the natural world. This is driven by a long term engagement with her local landscape and garden, where she grows vegetables, fruit and flowers. This supports her to honour tropes of seasonality, care, growth and decay, ritual and ceremony.
Together with Roisin Foley and Susan Montgomery, Natasha Pike is a founding member of The Glitter Heap; an interdisciplinary ‘meitheall’ where permaculture and biodynamic growing processes strive to inform a sustainable and supportive art practice.
In 2020 Natasha was shortlisted for the RDS Visual Art Awards and was the recipient of the Lismore Castle Arts Graduate Award resulting in a solo exhibition at St Carthage Hall (downloadable catalogue here). In 2022 she contributed Vibrant Matter to the VAI News Sheet painting issue, and was also a member of the Peripheries Meet correspondence course based in Gorey School of Art, Wexford.
Evolving from her solo exhibition Tropisms and with Arts Council Bursary funding in 2021, she began work on a project called ‘Tropism’. Presently, it consists of a collection of commissioned essays from scientific and academic disciplines, existing as a theoretical ‘backbone’ to her artistic practice. This body of work champions relationships between different disciplines as they respond to a central theme and seeks to discover, in areas of overlap, what synergy may occur as a form of intersectional knowledge production. Nathalie Sarraute’s 1939 experimental novel provides the conceptual umbrella to develop this work, acting as a historical and philosophical framework to explore relationships with and responses to matter.
Natasha has taken part in several national and international residencies and is a member of Backwater Artists Network. Her work is housed in the MTU Arts Office Collection and the OPW.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
Solo
2021 'Tropisms’ at Clonakilty Arts Centre, Clonakilty, Co Cork
2020 'And almost I am back again' at Lismore Castle Arts St Carthage Hall, Lismore, Co Waterford
2018 ‘Tonight there is no God’ at Origin Gallery, 37 Fitzwilliam St Upper, Dublin
2016 ‘Lost in the chaos’ at Origin Gallery, 37 Fitzwilliam St upper, Dublin
2015 'Oh Mama' at Street Kabinett, window street gallery at Linnen Berlin, Prenzlauer Berg, Berlin, Germany
2009 ‘Todos Los Dias’ at Mise Artspace, Galway, Ireland
Joint
2019 Michael Mcswiney and Natasha Pike at Doswell Gallery, Rosscarbery, Co Cork
2015 ‘So Oder So – Diversity rather than Singularity’ curated by Christina Schrauwers with photographer Michael Nordmeyer at The Showroom Voltapark, Berlin(Feb-Mar)
Group
2024 FEEDBACK, Backwater Artists Network exhibition curated by Roisin Foley in collaboration with The Glitter Heap (Susan Montgomery and Natasha Pike) LHQ, Cork
2023 ‘Associate Relations’, MAAP and Backwater Artists Group collaboration, curated by Padraig Spillane, (Oct) Studio 12, Cork
2022 MEET #2, peripheriesMEET correspondence course exhibition curated by Emma Roche and James Merrigan, Gorey school of Art, Wexford
2022 C L O S E R, Backwater Members Exhibition curated by Janice Hough, Lavit Gallery, Cork
2021 ‘On the bare branches, Outside my window are buds, And this is enough’ Six artists at the O Driscoll Building, Skibbereen, Curated by Ann Davoren (Uillinn West Cork Arts Centre) and Alice Clifford. (The Wavemakers)
2019 ‘PUSH’ group show for MA in Art & Process (MA:AP), The Gallery No 46 Grande Parade, Cork
2019 ‘The Collectables’ Group show at Origin Gallery, 37 Fitzwilliam St Upper, Dublin
2018 Rua Red Winter Open, Rua Red Arts Centre, Dublin
2016 48 Stunden Neukolln, ‘May the art be with you’ collaborative exhibition with Sylvia Souffriau and Thomas Schmitt, city funded 48hour open art show across Neukolln, Outside Pluto project space, Silberstein Str, Berlin
2016 ‘Art Bomb’ at Galerie Dr Holz-bein Schmitt, Kopernicker Str, Berlin
2016 Werkstadt Project, Emser Str, Berlin
2015 Lange nacht Lichtenberg, ‘long night of art’ festival, Lichtenberg, Berlin
2015 Moabit Kulture Days, Ortstermin Kunstverein Tiergarten, Moabit, Berlin
2015 Art Kreuzberg festival, Dr Neidhardt studios, Kreuzberg, Paul-linke ufer Berlin
2012 Rua Red Winter Open, Rua Red Arts Centre, Dublin
2011 ‘Drawing The Line’ Urban Retreat Gallery, Dublin
Collections
Munster Technological University
The Office of Public Works, Ireland
The Twelve Hotel. Barna, Galway
Work held in private collections in Ireland, UK, Holland, Germany, New Zealand, Australia and USA
Awards and Bursaries
Studio residency at Uillinn West Cork Arts Centre (Oct-Dec, 2024)
Arts Council Visual Arts Bursary Award (2021/22)
peripheriesMEET blended correspondence programme (2021/22)
Munster Technological University Purchase Prize (2021)
Six-month project studio residency at Backwater Artist Group (2021/22)
Lismore Castle Arts Graduate Award solo exhibition (2020)
Shortlist for RDS Visual Arts Graduate Awards Exhibition (2020)
IMMA Art and Politics Summer School, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (2019)
Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Annaghmakerrig, Co Monaghan (2019)
The Irish Arts Council Travel and Training Award (2014)
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