Natalya Critchley
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Bournemouth, England, 1963. Studied at Central School of Art and Design, London.
Lived in Venezuela during 1981-2016. Currently resides in Kalamazoo, MI, USA.
Visual artist of English origin who travelled to Venezuela looking for light and lived for two decades in Ciudad Guayana – an industrial city on the confluence of the Orinoco and Caroni rivers with the brightest light on earth. I developed a body of work based on the monumental industrial park and growing city while working in cultural promotion.
Through constant repetition figurative images were gradually synthesized into an alphabet of symbols with which to rewrite the landscape. Through this abstract language I could embrace a revision of the female figure, and in increasingly narrative work, explore the broken balance of ecology in the world of manufacturing.
After moving to Caracas in 2000, social art projects became a growing counterpart to painting especially after a commission to draw the construction of a cable car in the San Agustín hillside shantytown. Since 2015 I run MAPEA, a multidisciplinary mapping workshop that includes walkabouts, corporal expression and painting in an attempt to look at the city, it’s patterns and our evolving relationship with the urban environment.
Online portfolio of works available at Artwork Achive
Email: natalya.critchley@gmail.com
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