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Natasha Michaels
About the Artist
The origins of Natasha Michaels’ monoprints lie in historical portraits from the renaissance to the 19th century. Exploring challenging and at times up-ending traditional conventions and genres, Michaels’ work is an investigation of her own ambivalence towards the originals. At once subverting and celebrating, she uses her own expressive language to recast and direct the sitters, reimagining them as fictional characters. The subjects often appear uncomfortable or perplexed as Michaels plays with ideas of power, gender and artifice directing the viewer to consider their status.
Michaels’ process adds to this unstable mutant world. Beginning with the reversal of the original image. Gestural brushstrokes, slips and smears combined with the sharp boundaries of the cut aluminium plates reveal strange chimeras on the paper. Unsettlingly recognisable yet unfamiliar, they hover between high art and pop culture. Michaels makes multiple versions of each print constantly experimenting and adapting her approach as if engaged in a conversation with the original sitters and the emerging versions of themselves.
Artworks
Natasha Michaels
Amendment
Date: 2025
Medium: Polymer Gravure
Size: 38 x 28 cms (14.96 x 11.02 ins)
Printed on 280gsm BFK Rives, Grey
38 x 28 cm (Plate 29 x 21 cm)
Edition 20, 2 APs, PP, HC
Printed at Argento Editions, UK
This print is part of Folio 25 - comprising of sixteen fine art prints by sixteen UK– based artists.
Each print has a limited edition of twenty.
Ten of each edition form part of complete folio sets (all sixteen prints)
Ten are available as individual prints.
Natasha Michaels
Blue Dupe, Cat Chasing a Butterfly (Framed)
Date: 2023
Medium: Monotype 1/2
Size: 20.5 x 30 cms (8.07 x 11.81 ins)
Unique 1/2
Framed Price
Natasha Michaels
Countess F
Date: 2020
Medium: Monoprint
Size: 40.00 x 26.00 cms (15.75 x 10.24 ins)
Edition Variable EV1/3
Natasha Michaels
Dignitary
Date: 2020
Medium: Monoprint
Size: 32 x 32.00 cms (12.60 x 12.60 ins)
Edition Variable EV1/3, Framed
Natasha Michaels
Dupe (Young Woman) EV1/3 F
Date: 2021
Medium: Monoprint
Size: 69.50 x 45.5 cms (27.36 x 17.91 ins)
Edition Variable: 1/3
Framed
Natasha Michaels
Dupe EV1
Date: 2021
Medium: Monoprint
Size: 67 x 54.00 cms (26.38 x 21.26 ins)
Edition Variable EV1/3
Natasha Michaels
Dupe EV2
Date: 2021
Medium: Monoprint
Size: 67 x 54.00 cms (26.38 x 21.26 ins)
Edition Variable EV2/3
Natasha Michaels
Dupe EV3
Date: 2021
Medium: Monoprint
Size: 67 x 54.00 cms (26.38 x 21.26 ins)
Edition Variable EV3/3
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Natasha Michaels
Dupe L'Odalisque Blond (Green) EV3/3 F
Date: 2021
Medium: Monoprint
Size: 51.50 x 65.50 cms (20.28 x 25.79 ins)
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Edition Variable: 3/3
Framed
Natasha Michaels
Dupe L'Odalisque Blond (Ochre) EV2/3
Date: 2021
Medium: Monoprint
Size: 51.50 x 65.50 cms (20.28 x 25.79 ins)
Edition Variable: 2/3
Unframed
Natasha Michaels
Emperor
Date: 2020
Medium: Monoprint
Size: 32 x 24 cm (12.60 x 9.45 ins)
Edition Variable EV1/3
Natasha Michaels
Facsimile(Peaches with Butterfly (F) (copy)
Date: 2020
Medium: Monoprint
Size: 32 x 32 cms (12.60 x 12.60 ins)
These 'Still Life' images aren't still, they have become unsettlingly corporeal , the sublime has become ridiculous ; and while they are often visually absurd and comical there also lurks discomfort and menace.
Monoprint 1/1
Natasha Michaels
Facsimile_Vase of Flowers (F)
Date: 2020
Medium: Monoprint
Size: 46.00 x 37.00 cms (18.11 x 14.57 ins)
These 'Still Life' images aren't still, they have become unsettlingly corporeal , the sublime has become ridiculous ; and while they are often visually absurd and comical there also lurks discomfort and menace.
Monoprint 1/1
Natasha Michaels
Girl F
Date: 2020
Medium: Monoprint
Size: 53 x 67.5 cms 20.87 x 26.57 ins)
Edition Variable EV1. Framed £1200
Natasha Michaels
Infanta EV1/2 F
Date: 2021
Medium: Monoprint
Size: 52.50 x 38 cms (20.67 x 14.96 ins)
Edition Variable: 1/2
Framed Price
Natasha Michaels
Lady with her Cat EV1/3 F
Date: 2021
Medium: Monoprint
Size: 52.5 x 40.5 cms (20.67 x 15.94 ins)
Edition Variable: 1/3
Framed Price
Natasha Michaels
Pedigree
Date: 2022
Medium: Intaglio
Size: 28.00 x 38.00 cms (11.02 x 14.96 ins)
Edition 20.
Printed on Arches Moulin du Gué.
FRAMED PRICE: £450
Natasha Michaels
Proxy Young Woman with Dog (Large) F
Date: 2021
Medium: Monoprint
Size: 52.5 x 40.5 cms (20.67 x 15.94 ins)
Edition: 1
Framed
Natasha Michaels
Understudy II
Date: 2023
Medium: Monotype 2/2
Size: 31 x 20.50 cms (12.20 x 8.07 ins)
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Natasha Michaels
Understudy III (Framed)
Date: 2023
Medium: Monotype
Size: 30.00 x 20.50 cms (11.81 x 8.07 ins)
Unique 1/1
Framed Price
Natasha Michaels
Understudy IV - Catwoman
Date: 2023
Medium: Monotype 2/2
Size: 30.00 x 23.50 cms (11.81 x 9.25 ins)
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Natasha Michaels
Understudy IX (Framed)
Date: 2023
Medium: Monotype 1/2
Size: 29.50 x 20.50 cms (11.61 x 8.07 ins)
Unique 1/2
Framed Price
Natasha Michaels
Understudy VI
Date: 2023
Medium: Monotype 1/2
Size: 31.00 x 20.50 cms (12.20 x 8.07 ins)
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Natasha Michaels
Understudy VII - Sailor (Framed)
Date: 2023
Medium: Monotype 1/2
Size: 30.50 x 20.50 cms (12.01 x 8.07 ins)
Unique 1/2
Framed Price
Natasha Michaels
Understudy VIII - Ariadne
Date: 2023
Medium: Monotype 1/2
Size: 31 x 20.5 cms (12.20 x 8.07 ins)
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Natasha Michaels
Understudy XV
Date: 2023
Medium: Monotype
Size: 31.00 x 21 cms (12.20 x 8.27 ins)
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Natasha Michaels
Understudy XVI - Duke of Wellington
Date: 2023
Medium: Monotype 1/2
Size: 31.00 x 20.50 cms (12.20 x 8.07 ins)
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Natasha Michaels
Wife F
Date: 2020
Medium: Monoprint
Size: 45.5 x 66 cms (17.91 x 25.98 ins)
Edition Variable EV1/3
Natasha Michaels
Young Woman With Dog, Proxy
Date: 2022
Medium: Photopolymer gravure
Size: 38 x 28 cms (14.96 x 11.02 ins)
Printed on Arches Moulin du Gué.
Edition 20.
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Part old masters, part cartoons the works hint at contemporary notions of importance and beauty such as celebrity, social media filters and cosmetic procedures and create painterly composites against flat indeterminate backgrounds. The sitters appear, to themselves as well as the viewer uncertain of their identity and context.
Biography
EXHIBITIONS (SELECTED GROUP AND SOLO)
2023
Summer Exhibition, Rabley Gallery, Wiltshire
Oxmarket Contemporary Intermission
London Art Fair, Rabley Gallery, Islington
London Original Print Fair, Rabley Gallery, Somerset House
The Darkling Night, Rabley Gallery, Wiltshire
IFPDA Fine Art Print Fair, Rabley Gallery, New York,
2022
The Darkling Night, Rabley Gallery
London Original Print Fair, Rabley Gallery, Somerset House
The RWA Secret Postcard
Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair
Oxmarket Contemporary
Wells Art Contemporary
Jelous Gallery ARCHERBOURJOISMICHAELSPOPESMALLHORN
2021
Discerning Eye
Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
Everywoman Biennial
Acedia at Purslane Art
Art on a postcard
An Intimate Distance – Eileen Cooper RA, Craigie Aitchison RA, Natasha Micheals and Jo Taylor, Rabley Gallery.
2020
Rabley Gallery Summer Exhibition
LOPF September – Feature Artist with Rabley Gallery
2019
Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair RE National Original Print
2018
Dark Side of the moon, Hexagon Classic Design
2017
RE Masters of Monoprint, Bankside, London
AWARDS / RESIDENCIES
Ushaw Residency and Acquisition Prize 2022
Oxarket Contemporary Prize 2022
Jealous Prize 2021
Jill Bullen Memorial Award 2019 at Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair
Residency London Print Studio 2017
EDUCATION
MA Royal College of Art Illustration – 1994 – 1996
St Martins School of Art Communication Design – 1989 – 92