NATASHA PIKE - BIO & CV

Together with Roisin Foley and Susan Montgomery, Natasha Pike is a founding member of The Glitter Heap; an interdisciplinary ‘meitheall’ where rural models and 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 was awarded a project studio at Backwater Artists Studios and was selected for the Peripheries Meet correspondence course based in Gorey School of Art, Wexford. In 2024 Natasha completed a three month studio residency at Uillinn West Cork Arts Centre.

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Evolving from her solo exhibition Tropisms at Clonakilty Arts Centre (2021) and with Arts Council Bursary funding, she began work on a book project called ‘Tropism’. Presently, it consists of a collection of imagery and commissioned essays from scientific and academic disciplines considering reaction and response to stimulus. This body of work champions relationships between different disciplines as they respond to a central theme and exists as a theoretical ‘backbone’ to her artistic practice. Nathalie Sarraute’s 1939 experimental novel Tropisms provides the conceptual umbrella in developing 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.​

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Selected Exhibitions

Solo

2021    ‘Tropisms’ at Clonakilty Arts Centre, Clonakilty, Co Cork, (Sept)

2020    ‘And almost I am back again’ at Lismore Castle Arts St Carthage hall, Lismore, Waterford (Nov-Dec) Online Exhibition (due to covid) with essay by Ciara Healy- Musson

2018    ‘Tonight there is no God’ at Origin Gallery, 37 Fitzwilliam St Upper, Dublin (June-July)

2016    ‘Lost in the chaos’ at Origin Gallery, 37 Fitzwilliam St upper, Dublin (Oct-Nov)

2015    ‘Where are we now’ pop up show at ‘The Bandroom’, Melchiorstrasse, Berlin, Germany (Oct) ‘Social Achievement’ This image sold and used as a fabric print in New York Fashion designer Julianna Bass’s collection for New York Fashion week Spring/Summer collection 2015, Berlin/New York, Germany/USA

2015    ‘Oh Mama’ Painting selected for Street Kabinett, street window gallery at Linnen Berlin, Prenzlauer Berg, Berlin, Germany (July)

2009    ‘Todos Los Dias’ Mise Artspace, Galway, Ireland (Aug)

Joint 

2019    ‘Natasha Pike and Michael Mcswiney’ at Doswell Gallery, Rosscarbery, Co Cork. (Feb-Mar)

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) (June-July)

2023    ‘Associate Relations’, MAAP and Backwater Artists Group collaboration, curated by Padraig Spillane, (Oct)

2022    ‘CLOSER’, selected Backwater Artists Group exhibition curated by Janice Hough (Residency and Artist Programmes Curator at IMMA. (May)

2022    PeripheriesMEET correspondence programe group exhibition at Periphery Space, Gorey School of Art. (June)

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) (Oct)

2020    ‘A moment before lockdown’ Backwater artists network online only exhibition, installed at Studio 12, Backwater Artist Group, Cork (Oct-Nov)

2019    ‘PUSH’ MA group show, The Gallery No 46 Grande Parade, Cork (Nov-Dec)

2019    ‘The Collectables’ Group show at Origin Gallery, 37 Fitzwilliam St Upper, Dublin (Feb-Mar)

2018   Selected for Rua Red Winter Open, Rua Red Arts Centre, Dublin (Dec-Jan)

2016    48 Stunden Neukolln, ‘May the art be with you’ with Sylvia Souffriau and Thomas Schmitt, Outside Pluto project space, Silberstein Str, Berlin, Germany (June)

2016    ‘Art Bomb’ at Galerie Dr Holz-bein Schmitt, Kopernicker Str, Berlin, Germany (April)

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)