Nat Tozer explores narratives of the underground to unearth objects and knowledge. She attempts to dig, cast, frottage, film, imagine and animate the ground – splicing an expanded geological inquiry with science fiction and mythology. Working across moving image, materiality and social sculpture, she is interested in folk tales, the revision of mythologies into a local ecologies, tunnelling, anarchist anthropology and network theories.
Recent exhibitions include Dialogues in Video Art, Works from the Chartwell Collection and Elam Artists at George Fraser Gallery (2025), A Sapling to Tie for the Masons Screen Commission (2025), Erotic Geologies at Gow Langsford Onehunga (2024), The Metamodern in Literature, Art, Education, and Indigenous Cosmologies: An Interdisciplinary Symposium at AUT (2023), Sluice Screens at IMT Gallery, London (2023), and Deucalion & Pyrrha for Sluice Biennial supported by PADA Residency and Lisbon Art Weekend (2022).
Tozer holds an MFA with first-class honours (2022) and a PGDipFA with Distinction (2020) from the University of Auckland Waipapa Taumata Rau. During her time at Elam she received The Lightship Award which funded the presentation of an open-air 110m video work at The Ports of Auckland, a summer scholarship, an academic scholarship, was selected for the Emerging Artists Show at Sanderson Gallery and represented Elam School of Fine Arts at the Guangzhou Graduate Art Fair.
Tozer is a director at LOT23 which specialises in delivering high-production moving image for visual artists. She is also the founder and curator of mothermother.
ORGANISATIONS
2024 – 2025 Artspace Aotearoa, Treasurer
2019 – 2025 mothermother ARI, Founder and Curator
2013 – 2025 LOT23 Media, Creative Director
AWARDS
2025 Masons Screen Commission, Commissioned by Circuit Artist Moving Image & Wellington City Council
2021 The Lightship Award, Awarded by The University of Auckland, Crave Global Media, and Ports of Auckland
PLATFORM REPRESENTATION
Circuit Artist Moving Image
RM Women’s Moving Image Archive
Femisphere 4
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025 To Tie a Sapling, Plomacy, Tāmaki Makaurau
2025 To Tie a Sapling, Masons Screen, The Terrace, Wellington, curated by Mark Williams
2024 Erotic Geologies, Gow Langsford, Onehunga, Tāmaki Makaurau
2022 Deucalion & Pyrrha, Sluice Biennale, PADA Residency, Lisbon Art Weekend
2021 ONEPANEA, The Lightship, Ports of Auckland, Tāmaki Makaurau, curated by Bridget Riggir-Cuddy
2021 Companion Pieces, Public Record, Tāmaki Makaurau
2018 Future Fossils, Grey Gallery, Tāmaki Makaurau
2014 Pop Vacuum 2, Corner Window, Tāmaki Makaurau, curated by Rob Garrett
DUO EXHIBITIONS
2020 Salted Earth, with George Turner, Sosage, Tāmaki Makaurau
2019 Goofer Dust, with Inga Fillary, Elam Project Space, Tāmaki Makaurau
2015 If this then that, with James Pinker, LOT23, Tāmaki Makaurau
2014 subject to change, with Philippa Blair, LOT23, Tāmaki Makaurau
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS
2025 Dialogues in Video Art: Works from the Chartwell Collection and by Elam Artists, George Fraser Gallery
2025 Plus One, Jhana Millers Gallery, Wellington
2025 Unifying Threads, Te Atamira Cultural Centre, Queenstown
2025 Sluice Film Festival, Herðubíó cinema, Seyðisfjörður, Iceland
2025 Ōnepu Shifting Sands | Shifting TIme, Franklin Arts Centre Papakura
2025 Power Circle, mothermother, Kingsland, Tāmaki Makaurau
2025 Where the veil is thinnest, Coven of ERA (Elam Returned Artists), George Fraser Gallery
2025 Iteration 31, mothermother booth, Aotearoa Art Fair, Tāmaki Makaurau
2024 House Warming, mothermother, Kingsland Tāmaki Makaurau
2024 ABSTRAXT ABSTRAXT, Northart Public Art Gallery, Northcote
2024 GREEN, mothermother, Eden Terrace, Tāmaki Makaurau
2023 Sub-Urban, Northart Public Art Gallery, Northcote
2023 The Table, mothermother project booth, Aotearoa Art Fair, Tāmaki Makaurau
2023 The Metamodern in Literature, Art, Education + Indigenous Cosmologies: An Interdisciplinary Symposium, AUT
2022 Māter Mater, Silo6 Wynyard Quarter, Tāmaki Makaurau
2022 Sluice Screens, IMT Gallery, London
2022 He Iti, mothermother project booth, Aotearoa Art Fair, Tāmaki Makaurau
2021 Piki Mai: Up Here, mothermother project booth, Aotearoa Art Fair, Tāmaki Makaurau
2020 Emerging Artists, Sanderson Gallery, Tāmaki Makaurau
2020 Guangzhou Graduate Art Fair, Guangzhou, China
2018 Art Fair VIP event, Elam B, Auckland University, Tāmaki Makaurau
2015 Bene Commune, LOT23, Tāmaki Makaurau, curated by Stephen Bambury
AWARD EXHIBITIONS
2022 National Contemporary Art Award Finalist, Waikato Museum, judged by Rueben Patterson
2021 National Contemporary Art Award Finalist, Waikato Museum, judged by Karl Chitham
2022, 2017, 2014, 2011, 2009 Walker and Hall Finalist – Waiheke Gallery, Auckland, various judges
2017 Salon Des Refuses, 26th Annual Wallace Art Awards, various judges
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
2017 A sightless foetus named understanding The Arts House Trust
DEVELOPMENT & EDUCATION
2023 Te Reo Level 2, Auckland Women’s Centre
2022 MFA with first class honours, Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland
2019 Summer Scholarship, Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland
2018 PGDipFA with distinction, Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland
2009 Travelling and Parenting
2003 Trade Certified Picture Framer specialising in paper conservation
2002 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland
2000 School of Design, Victoria University of Wellington (cross credited)
CONTACT
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