Natalie Mitchell is a multidisciplinary artist working across moving image, photography, sound, and archival practices. Based in the UK, their work explores memory, colonial legacies, and diasporic identity through processes rooted in care, collaboration and lived experience.
Their practice engages oral histories, found materials, and personal archives to examine how histories are held, obscured, and re-imagined. Working across film and installation, Mitchell creates space for quiet reflection, foregrounding voices and narratives that are often overlooked or fragmented.
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Exhibitions
2025
SIGNAL, Aldershot Contemporary, Aldershot
The Assembly House Summer Open, The Assembly House Trust, Norwich
NAE Open, New Art Exchange, Nottingham
2024
door for retelling, Fillet, London
Conditions Studio Programme, London
Solastalgia, Turf Projects, London
2023
Conditions Studio Programme, London
2019
They Came Before Us, 14 Hanbury Street, London
2018
Revolving Gallery, GX Gallery, London
2017
Super Yonic Art Festival, Copeland Gallery, London
2015
Open Generation, Autograph ABP, London
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2026
NYC Film Diary, Millennium Film Workshop, New York
2025
FRIEZE Week Film Night: On Memory, Time and Liminality, Hypha Studios, London Affected Commons,
Goldsmiths University, London
Youth & Archive on Film, David Lean Cinema, London
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2025; ACAVA Flourish Project (upcoming)
2025; Souuthbank Centre Artist Advisory Collective
2023; F.A.T. Studios & Southwark Schools Project
2022-2023; Unearthed Collective, Studio Voltaire
2021-2023; Imagining Resistance
2020; Projecting Power: Photography as Activism
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2024; ‘What is the legacy of the 2011 riots?’ The Process with Imran Perretta, Somerset House
2020; ‘Your Words, My Voice’, the rage and recognition issue, Unpretty Zine (#3), publication of artists’ writing focusing on anti-racism in response to the Black Lives Matter protests in 2020.
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Programme & Participation Manager, Kingswood Arts (July 2024 – January 2025)
Developing and managing creative engagement initiatives for young people and the wider community.
Community Producer: Programme & Production, Turf Projects (August 2023 – April 2024)
Curated and delivered participatory arts programmes, supporting artists and community engagement.
Assistant Curator (Participation), Studio Voltaire (February 2021 – October 2023)
Developed learning programmes, commissions, and public engagement activities in collaboration with artists and institutions.
Freelance Artist, Curator & Facilitator (April 2015 – Present)
Specialising in socially engaged practice, facilitation, and artistic development.
Assistant Producer, Brighton Photo Fringe (August 2020 – January 2021)
Managed emerging curator training programmes and public exhibitions.
Triangle Network Administrator, Gasworks & The Triangle Network (January 2020 – January 2021)
Coordinated international arts development programmes.
Co-Director, Super Yonic Art Festival (February 2017 – September 2018)
Led artist-run festival focused on feminist and socially engaged art.
Production Assistant, Peckham Festival (February – September 2017)
Supported public arts programming and artist development.
Gallery Assistant, 198 Contemporary Arts and Learning (April 2019 – January 2020)
Facilitated gallery exhibitions and learning initiatives with Tate Exchange
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2026
ACAVA Barham Park Hosts, London (upcoming)
New Contemporaries Studio Bursary Residency Programme in partnership with Hospitalfield (upcoming)
2025
Southbank Centre Artist Advisory Collective
Freelands Foundation Artists’ Bursary
2024
Arts Council England’s Developing Your Creative Practice grant
2022-2024
CONDITIONS studio programme