Natalie Head

About Natalie Head

After several years of incorporating AI into my artistic practice, I've decided to move in a different direction.

This isn't a decision I arrived at overnight, but one that feels increasingly like the right one for me as an artist.

I'm finding myself drawn back to ideas, projects, and processes I set aside years ago.
Old photographs, paper, found objects, sculpture, fiber, and experimentation are finding their way back into the studio.
Some of these paths are familiar; others are completely new.

I don't know exactly where this shift will lead but artists grow by questioning, revisiting, and occasionally changing course.
This is one of those moments.

Thank you for following along. I hope you'll stay with me as this next chapter unfolds

After several years of working with digital and AI-based processes, I have returned deliberately to the physical and handmade. This shift has brought me back to materials and ideas I had set aside, and to the possibilities of working slowly, experimentally, and without a predetermined outcome.

I am currently thinking of the work as a period of exploration and research. Rather than developing a single polished visual language, I am allowing disparate materials, processes, images, and ideas to coexist and inform one another. Making becomes a way of asking questions—about memory, attachment, value, transformation, and why some things resist being thrown away.

I collect, alter, obscure, combine, and reconstruct. Photographs become objects; ordinary materials become repositories for memory; discarded ideas find their way back into the work. This is, ultimately, a refusal to discard—not only objects and images, but people, ideas, memories, and possibilities.