In 2019, Natalie Mitchell joined a collective of women dedicated to uncovering the UK’s history of Black, Asian and Ethnic Minority Women as part of the Collage Arts Heritage Lottery project They Came Before Us.
The series focuses on the story of Catalina De Cardones, Lady-in-waiting to Queen Katherine of Aragon.
These images play with the traditional positions of power that would’ve existed between a Queen and her Lady-in-waiting. This is not to say that Catalina is master over Katherine, more a display of Catalina’s care towards Katherine. Catalina would have cared for Katherine. She would have been her interpreter, helped her in a foreign land far from home; away from everything the two would have known.
Funded by National Lottery Heritage Fund.
The Black Lives Matter Protest taking place in London is a peaceful movement in solidarity with our brothers and sisters in America, sparked by the systematic oppression Black people face on a daily basis across the world.
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Fck Govt Fck Boris, hosted by 12 activist groups and figures, including the Women’s Strike Assembly, Sisters Uncut and Owen Jones, a march against a Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
London, 2019
Ongoing project on couples from interracial/mixed heritage backgrounds about what it means to be in an interracial/intercultural relationship in the UK. Exhibited at Super Yonic Festival, Copeland Gallery 2017.
A ‘2C’ is a person of two countries. A person who blends the ideas and customs of two communities to create their own unique cultural identity and a sense of home. Commissioned by and exhibited at Autograph ABP 2016.
The Aylesbury Estate Regeneration Protest took place as a peaceful protest against its demolition and the displacement of its community.
London, 2016
