Natalie Perkins draws heavily on her experience as a graphic designer; exploring body image, self awareness, repetition, self sacrifice and the notion of giving using ink, watercolour or acrylic on paper. She creates whimsical yet wistful pieces which incorporate finely detailed line work as well as hand drawn lettering and builds pictures out of intricate clumps of paisleys, drawn with a moderate-sized army of pens and pencils. Natalie often spends extensive periods of time on small pieces, ignoring hours of tendinitis pain in her wrist and fingers to embellish each with love and affection.

Natalie has contributed work to a number of art zines and magazines, was published in 2009‘s Semi-Permanent book, and creates lettering for Peppermint Magazine’s covers. She has participated in a number of group exhibitions in 2009 and looks forward to pursuing further gallery representation in 2010.

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Natalie Perkins
Born Brisbane, Australia on 20 December 1980

EDUCATION
Bachelor of Education/ Bachelor of Arts (Visual Arts)
1998-2001 Queensland University of Technology Brisbane, Australia

EXHIBITIONS
2009 “Connect Four: Play” Valley Studios, Brisbane, Australia
2009 “Works on Paper and Drawing” KILN Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
2009 “The Illustrators” KILN Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
2009 “Natalie Perkins” Urban Grind, Brisbane, Australia
2009 “Once Upon” aMBUSH Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2010 Tribal Theatre Opening Night, Brisbane, Australia

PUBLICATIONS
2008 Peppermint Magazine Issue 1
2009 Peppermint Magazine Issue 2
2009 Peppermint Magazine Issue 3
2009 Semi Permanent
2009 Everything’s Okay, I Drew This For You (Zine)
2009 Tres Beau Art Zine No 1
2009 Real Magazine 3
2009 Blanket Magazine Issue 16
2009 Peppermint Magazine Issue 4
2009 Forth Thread Issue 1
2009 Hair ‘em, Scare ‘em. Gestalten Art Book.
2009 Blanket Magazine Issue 19
2009 How Magazine February

COMMISSIONS
2008 Confashional identity illustration, NextNewNetworks.com
2009 Outrageous Swim Textiles, WGSN.com
2009 Mix CD prop illustrations for film, Jucy (directed by Louise Alston)
2009 Promotional artwork for film, The Italian Key (written by Roosa Toivonen)
2009 Daydream Lily blog logo, daydreamlily.com