NATASHA PIKE - BIO & CV
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 that are informed by cross disciplinary research.
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. 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 art practice, accommodating tropes of seasonality, care, growth and decay.​
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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.
To build on the project to date she has been awarded a studio residency at Uillinn West Cork Arts Centre between Oct-Dec 2024 .
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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
2020
'And almost I am back again' at Lismore Castle Arts St Carthage Hall, Lismore, Co Waterford
2018
2016
2015
‘Tonight there is no God’ at Origin Gallery, 37 Fitzwilliam St Upper, Dublin
‘Lost in the chaos’ at Origin Gallery, 37 Fitzwilliam St upper, Dublin
‘Oh Mama, are we now’ pop up show at ‘The Bandroom’, Melchiorstrasse, Berlin, Germany
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
2015
Michael Mcswiney and Natasha Pike at Doswell Gallery, Rosscarbery, Co Cork
‘So Oder So – Diversity rather than Singularity’ Curated by Christina Schrauwers in collaboration with photographer Michael Nordmeyer at The Showroom Voltapark, Oranneindamm 71, Berlin, Germany
Group
2024
FEEDBACK, Backwater Artists Network exhibition curated by Roisin Foley in collaboration with The Glitter Heap (Susan Montgomery and Natasha Pike)
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2023
‘Associate Relations’, MAAP and Backwater Artists Group collaboration, curated by Padraig Spillane, (Oct)
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
2018
2016
‘The Collectables’ Group show at Origin Gallery, 37 Fitzwilliam St Upper, Dublin
Selected for Rua Red Winter Open, Rua Red Arts Centre, Dublin
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, Germany
2016
2016
2015
2015
2015
2015
2014
2012
2011
‘Art Bomb’ at Galerie Dr Holz-bein Schmitt, Kopernicker Str, Berlin, Germany
Werkstadt Project, Emser Str, Berlin, Germany
Lange nacht Lichtenberg, ‘long night of art’ festival, Lichtenberg, Berlin, Germany
Moabit Kulture Days, Ortstermin Kunstverein Tiergarten, Moabit, Berlin, Germany
Art Kreuzberg festival, Dr Neidhardt studios, Kreuzberg, Paul-linke ufer Berlin, Germany
Art 250 show, Cill Rialaig Arts Centre, Kerry, Ireland
Open studios, Fellini Gallery and Art Studios, Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany
Selected for Rua Red Winter Open, Rua Red Arts Centre, Dublin, Ireland
‘Drawing The Line’ Urban Retreat Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
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
Arts Council Visual Arts Bursary Award
Munster Technological University Purchase Prize
Lismore Castle Arts Graduate Award solo exhibition
Shortlist for RDS Visual Arts Graduate Awards Exhibition
Six-month project studio residency at Backwater Artist Group
IMMA Art and Politics Summer School, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
The Irish Arts Council Travel and Training Award