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Natalie Robertson
Natalie Robertson is a photographic and moving image artist and scholar of Ngāti Porou and Clann Dhònnchaidh iwi/bones/tribes/clans. Natalie’s research terrain and artistic practice draw on Māori knowledge practices, Ngāti Porou oral customs, cultural landscapes and historic archives to engage with indigenous relationships to land and place. Centring Waiapu – the ancestral river of Ngāti Porou – world-famous for its erosion, her work responses to tribal aspirations for environmental reinvigoration. Natalie advances Māori counter-narratives to landscape photography, exploring how photofilmic images might contribute to environmental justice and revitalization.
Contact: School of Art and Design, AUT University, 40 Saint Paul Street, Auckland CBD, Auckland 1010, New Zealand.