In the turbulence of deep time, things come alive that seemed inert: ice breathes, rock has tides, mountains undulate, and caves speak. We cross through the margin from surface exterior to earth interior, looking for clues, knowledge, transcendence, and refuge, as well as the sunken networks of extraction, exploitation and disposal.
Casts of broken footpaths near and around Karangahape Rd, Tāmaki Makaurau preserve markings from tools and previous layers of broken grout.
The lockdowns brought repair and construction of the footpath to a halt. During this lull in productivity and progress casts were collected to admire the well-used areas we travel through, to acknowledge and contemplate the beauty of worn complexities, and explore the idea that meaningful production should be a subset of care…
Founder, curator, organiser ~ kaitiaki of the mothermother artist-run initiative, platform, publisher, gallery and network
mothermother is a circular project, a platform, a collective voice and a network
mothermother is iterative, non-hierarchical and inter-generational
mothermother makes space for exhibiting artists to connect, acknowledge and be seen through a kaupapa of manaakitanga
mothermother evolves as each artist passes the taonga of invitation onto the next, fostering support and opportunity
mothermother prioritises collective thinking and nonlinear concepts of time, history and economy
From 2013 to 2024 LOT23 was the proud kaitiaki of the iconic and hard working sound stage and film studio in Eden Terrace Tāmaki Makaurau. LOT23 not only operated as a film studio, both for our own work and for other production companies, but we also utlised the space as a bespoke independent performing arts venue.
LOT23 created and delivered a public program of free and ticketed events that included a wide variety of musical gigs, live performance, experimental theatre comedy, panel discussions, fashion shows, live broad casts, market days, networking and activism events, spoken word evenings and listening parties associated with Pride, Auckland Arts Festival, Auckland Photography Festival, various music labels, international touring DJ’s, creative and social change agencies, independent artists and community initiatives.
Theo Reeves-Evison describes in his essay Surface Fictions an artifact and popular attraction at South London’s Horniman Museum; a walrus that was taxidermied without any image reference or personal experience or sighting, by a nineteenth-century taxidermist…
This video work slowly crushes folded paper ‘fortune tellers’ – cootie catchers, chatterboxes, whirlybirds or paku-paku – hand folded paper objects used by children to predict the future.
A fictional scenario that imagines a future civilisation reconstructing these works as found artefacts. The works are discovered and dislodged from sedimentary layers, unearthed from the ground and pieced together…
Natalie talks to Richie Hardcore about a big group show of emerging artists at the new venue/gallery/café, LOT23. Interview with Richie Hardcore on 95bfm Feb 2014
Exhibition catalogue for Harborview Sculpture Trail, 2014
Natalie Tozer’s favourite things (+ her Lorna Louise slice recipe) Herald Friday, 06 December 2013
Natalie Tozer – “Punch + Black” at Waiheke Community Art Gallery.
Arts Diary, 10 April 2013
“Delicately coloured work in watercolour manipulated into strange organic forms that might be seen through a microscope.” New Zealand Herald February 21st, 2010 by T.J. McNamara
