Natasha Bucheit is a Canadian multimedia artist currently based in Montreal. She received a Fine Arts MA from the Edinburgh College Art in 2023. Natasha works across the disciplines of metalworking, drawing, and graphic design to create installations that sit at the intersection of imagery and sculpture. Flat motifs and planes of colour are propped up by exposed frames that reveal themselves to the viewer. Working in a minimalist vein allows the artist to test the boundaries of abstraction and representation.
Central to Natasha’s practice is an interest in the contemporary notion of biomimicry, an approach to environmental and ecological observation that recognises the sophistication of the natural world and uses it as a blueprint for scientific innovation. Natasha’s work explores the aesthetic dimension of biomimicry, and its role in shaping the built and media environments we inhabit. Through colour, motif and material, the work responds to the intriguing parallels between biomimicry and art historical tradition that show artists illustrating nature.
Viewers are invited to reflect on the dialogue that exists between the organic, the industrial and the pictorial landscapes we occupy, and to imagine a visual system that facilitates inter-species communication in lieu of anthropocentric imitation.
