About
Natalie Dowse lives and works in Portsmouth, UK and has exhibited her work nationally and internationally. Her work is in public and private collections, including the Jonathan Vickers Collection, the Robert Priseman Collection at Falmouth Art Gallery and the Priseman-Seabrook Collection. Her work is also featured on the Art UK website of the UK National Collection.
She was the recipient of the Jonathan Vickers Fine Art Award which culminated in her solo show Skimming the Surface at Derby Museum and Art Gallery. Natalie was awarded an international residency to Riga, Latvia, by the Arts Council England International Fellowship programme in partnership with Braziers International Artists’ Workshops. Natalie is a graduate of Falmouth School of Art (BA Fine Art) and the University of Portsmouth (MA Fine Art).
Natalie is a member of Contemporary British Painting
FORTHCOMING EXHIBITIONS 2025
Darkness Visible
APT Gallery in Deptford, London
27 March – 13 April 2025
Beep Painting Prize Biennial – I won’t stay in a world without love
Aberystwyth School of Art, Aberystwyth, Wales
13 January – 4 April 2025
CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
Beep Painting Prize Biennial – I won’t stay in a world without love
Elysium Gallery, Swansea, Wales
9 November – 21 December 2024
RECENT EXHIBITIONS
2024
Rogue Women 3
Rogue Artists’ Studios CIC, 2-6 Barrass Street, Openshaw, Manchester – 5 – 27 October 2024
Slow Painting: Surface Tension
Plough Arts Centre, 9-11 Fore St, Great Torrington, Torrington – 30 June – 17 August 2024
Assembly
The Old Gym, Rye Creative Centre, New Rd, Rye – 3 – 18 May 2024
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Work in Progress
ARC, Aspex, Portsmouth, UK – 2010
Surveillance
GASP, Art Space Portsmouth, Portsmouth – 2009
Skimming the Surface
Vickers Art Award 2007-08, Derby Museum and Art Gallery – 2008 – Read the essay
Between the Lines
Millais Gallery, Southampton Solent University, Southampton – 2007
Reflections of a City
e-t+t Residency Space, Riga, Latvia – 2006
My Little Whistlejacket
Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth – 2000
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023
Arcadia for All? Rethinking Landscape Painting Now
Gallery 1, Attenborough Arts Centre, University of Leicester, Lancaster Road, Leicester – 15 September 2023 – 28 January 2024
Arcadia for All? Rethinking Landscape Painting Now,
The Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery, Parkinson Building, University of Leeds – 26 April – 29 July 2023
X – Contemporary British Painting
Newcastle Contemporary Art, High Bridge Works, 31-39 High Bridge, Newcastle upon Tyne
2021
Fenella Fielding: Actress
Gallery 286 London, 286 Earl’s Court Road, London
Paint Edgy: Contemporary British Painting and Guests
Artspace Gallery, The Ropewalk, Maltkiln Road, Barton on Humber, North Lincolnshire
Sound and Vision – where Music Meets Art
The Merton Arts Space, Wimbledon Library, 35 Wimbledon Hill Road, London
Conversations with Nature
Alison Critchlow, Helen Thomas & Natalie Dowse, Wakefield Art House, Wakefield
Wish you were here
Terrace Gallery, Leyton, London
Vitalistic Fantasies
Elysium Gallery, 210 High Street, Swansea
Horizon (landscape and beyond)
The Cello Factory, 33-34 Cornwall Road, Waterloo, London
Paradoxes, CBP group exhibition, Quay Arts, Newport, Isle of Wight
2021
Darkness at Noon, CBP group exhibition, APT Gallery, London – View and download the Darkness at Noon catalogue
ArtTop10 “Lockdown Interviews” Exhibition, Cello Factory, London
2020
Vitalistic Fantasies
CBP group exhibition, The Cello Factory, Waterloo, London – View and download the Vitalistic Fantasies catalogue
In Search of a New World
Online exhibition, Southampton City Art Gallery
Yes/No
A visual Open Studio, Contemporary British Painting
PROCESS & PROGRESS: Artists of the Jonathan Vickers Fine Art Award
The Museum and Art Gallery, The Strand, Derby
A Life in Nature
Quay Arts, 15 Sea Street, Newport Harbour, Isle of Wight
2019
Mountain Size
Pineapple Black, Hillstreet Centre, Middlesbrough
Contemporary British Painting
Norwich Cathedral, Norwich – View and download the catalogue
Made in Britain
82 Painters of the 21st Century, The National Museum, Gdansk, Poland
New Painting
Contemporary British Painting Exhibition, The Crypt, Marylebone Street, London
2018
Testcard P
Curated by Marco Cali, The Crypt, Marylebone St London
Contemporary Masters from Britain
Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts Museum, Tianjin, China
2017
Contemporary Masters from Britain
Jiangsu Art Museum, Nanjing, China
Contemporary Masters from Britain
Jiangsu Arts and Crafts Museum, Nanjing, China
Contemporary Masters from Britain
The Yantai Art Museum, Yantai, China
Anything Goes?
Selected by Anna McNay, Art Bermondsey Project Space, London
Quay Arts Open
Quay Arts, Newport, Isle of Wight
Small Works Group Exhibition
Jack House Gallery, Old Portsmouth
2016
30 x 30 x 34
CBP Annual Group Show, St Marylebone Crypt, St Marylebone Road, London
Wells Art Contemporary
Bishop’s Palace, Wells Cathedral, Somerset
Contemporary British Painting Summer Exhibition
Quay Arts, Isle of Wight
Sixty
Art-Athina, Athens, Greece with Lubomirov / Angus-Hughes
Sixty
Lubomirov / Angus-Hughes Gallery, London
2015
Contemporary British Painting Group Show
St Marylebone Crypt, St Marylebone Road, London
Documentary Realism: Painting in the Digital Age
St Marylebone Crypt, St Marylebone Road, London
2014
@PaintBritain
Ipswich Art School Gallery, Colchester & Ipswich Museums, Ipswich
Contemporary British Painting
Priseman-Seabrook Collection, Huddersfield Art Gallery, Huddersfield
Close Encounters
Jeannie Driver & Natalie Dowse, GASP, Art Space Portsmouth, Portsmouth
About Time
GASP, Art Space Portsmouth, Portsmouth
2013
100 Artists
WW Gallery, London
Salon Des Refuses
GASP, Art Space Portsmouth
Rock Paper Scissors
GASP, Art Space Portsmouth
2012
BOGOF
WW Gallery, London
2010
Quay Arts Open
Quay Arts, Isle of Wight
2009
800 feet
SPACE, University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth
2008
New Encounters
Tregoning Gallery, Derby
2007
Liminal
Candid Galleries, Islington, London
Sugar and Spice
Vegas Gallery, Shoreditch, London
2006
Rework/Replay
Grey Area, Brighton
April Fool’s Trucker Prize
Truck Art – Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth
Drawing Space
Artspace, Southwell, Nottinghamshire
2005
Redundancy
Access Aspex, Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth
Common Ground
ArtSway, New Forest, Hampshire
2000
This town ain’t big enough for the both of us
Mike Blackman & Natalie Dowse, Ether Gallery, Portsmouth
RESIDENCIES & FELLOWSHIPS
The Jonathan Vickers Fine Art Award & Fellowship for painting, University of Derby – 2007-2008
Arts Council England and Braziers Fellowship, Riga Latvia – 2006
Art Space Portsmouth Sponsored Studio Award, Portsmouth – 1996-97
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Priseman-Seabrook Collection – View the Collection
Robert Priseman Gift Collection, Falmouth Art Gallery, Cornwall, UK
Jonathan Vickers Collection, Derbyshire, UK
University of Essex Collection
EDUCATION
Falmouth School of Art & Design – BA (hons) Fine Art – 1992
University of Portsmouth – MA Fine Art – 1996