BIO
Natalie Lennard (b. 1986) is a fine-art and commercial photographer whose work has been exhibited in the Saatchi Gallery and Houses of Parliament, featured by the BBC, El Pais and NY Arts, and whose commercial clients include Nikon, HTC and Guo Pei. Twice named Saatchi Art's One to Watch, her evocative surrealistic fashion pieces have become globally prolific with luxury venues, and spotlighted in Saatchi Art’s ‘Invest in Art’ 2018 and ‘Refuse to be the Muse’ reports on the growing power of women in photography.
'Birth Undisturbed' is Lennard's first major project to focus on a biosocial topic, with documentary video accompaniment, striving to combine the rawness of childbirth into the art world and Western consciousness in an unprecedented way. Depicting births of icons from the Virgin Mary to Calamity Jane and the Queen, partly inspired by the artist's own experience of motherhood and birth, the series' timeliness is ever more appropriate in a global maternity crisis by highlighting key figureheads and writers from the realm of essential birth philosophy. To date, Birth Undisturbed has won multiple awards for its images and filmmaking, been featured by major newspapers globally and at key conferences in London, Europe and US.
SELECTED CV / RESUME
Natalie Lennard (b . 1986)
London, UK
EDUCATION
2005-8: BA (Joint Hons) English and Media, University of Sussex, England
AWARDS
Child Undisturbed 'The Free Child' selected for London Shorts
Aesthetica Art Prize 2021, 'Call to Prayer' selected amongst 125 artists for publication in Aesthetica Art Prize Anthology: Future Now
Photographer of the Year 2020 (and Fine Art Category Winner) for Birth Undisturbed series, ND Awards
Aesthetica 2020 Short Film Festival, Artists' Film Official Selection (Call to Prayer)
Portrait of Humanity 2019, British Journal of Photography, Winner (Aquadural), 2019
12th Julia Margaret Cameron Award, Winner, 2018
Mother Art Prize, Procreate Project, Winner, 2018
Honourable Mention, Fine Art Category (Born of Calamity), Chromatic Awards, 2019
First Place, Nudes Category (Salle Sauvage), Chromatic Awards, 2018
Shortlisted for the Hopper Art Prize, 2018
Honourable Mention, IPA Lucie / International Photography Awards, 2018
Final 39 shortlist (Royal Blood) for the Kuala Lumpur Portrait Prize, 2018
Nominated for RPS Hundred Heroines, 2018
Selected for Young Masters' Art Prize Tour, 2017
Honourable mention & exhibition at Art of Photography Show, San Diego, 2010
30 under 30 Women Photographers, Winner, 2010
Selected for Shots Magazine, May 2009
AS JUDGE:
One Eyeland Awards 2020
Digital Camera Photographer of the Year, London 2010
Nikon I Am Photographer Awards, Tallinn, 2016
SE Center for Photography, North Carolina, Self-Portrait category, 2016
EXHIBITIONS
Birth Undisturbed Solo Show, S&P Gallery, Kensington London, July 2022
Her Story: Contemporary Female Artists Worldwide, Hamptons Virtual Art Fair, Gallery 1202, Aug/Sep 2020
Photo LA, Virtual Art Fair, Camp Gallery, July 2020
Photo LA Art Fair, Gallery 1202, Feb 2020
'Aquadural' as part of BJP Portrait of Humanity Winners at PhotoNOLA Festival, Louisiana State Museum, New Orleans, USA, Nov 2019 – Jan 2020
Organ Vida International Photography Festival, Zagreb, Croatia, Sep 2019
Lagos Photo Festival, Nigeria, Oct - Nov 2019
National Centre For Photography in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, Nov 2019
'Aquadural' acquired by Birth Rites Collection, Kings College London (48 x 64cm)
Birth Undisturbed Series exhibited for 12th Julia Margaret Cameron Awards (Winner), Galerie Valid Photo, Barcelona, May 2019
'Aquadural' exhibited for Mother Art Prize's Finalists Show, Mimosa House London, 2-18 May 2019
'Salle Sauvage' shown at exhibition Accouche! Histoires de la Naissance (Birth Stories) at Free University of Brussels, 19 February 2019
'Royal Blood' exhibited at Whitebox Gallery, Kuala Lumpar Portrait Prize Shortlist Show, September 2018
Solo exhibit Twelve Women in Academia at Houses of Parliament, 16th - 19th January 2017
Prins Eugens Waldemarsudde Museum Stockholm, Sweden, Sep 2016 - Jan 2017
Saatchi Gallery, Continental Shift by Saatchi Art, April 2014
101 Glimpses of Photo Vogue by Vogue Italia, Corso Como, Milan, Jul 2012
'Women: Inspire & Enterprise', Hospital Club, London, Mar 2012
Art of Photography Show San Diego, 2010
Photolounge Truman Brewery London, 2010
Solo show, Selected for Photo-Space curated by Alternative Arts London, 2010
David Weinberg Gallery Chicago, 2009
Buenos Aires Photo, Photo Miami & Estampa Fair, 2009, w/ Camara Oscura Galeria de Arte
Photo Miami, 2009 (w/ Camara Oscura)
Estampa fair, 2009 (w/ Camara Oscura)
Solo show, Camara Oscura Madrid, 2008
LECTURES/APPEARANCES
Official Selection in Aesthetica Short Film Festival, Screening of 'Call to Prayer', 3-8 November 2020
Speaker on panel Birth, Body and Performance, Visual & Performing Arts, Brunel University London, 5th June 2018
Speaker on Empowered Midwives, Empowered Women, University of Brighton Midwifery Society, 18th July 2018
Exhibition screening of Birth Undisturbed videos at From Birth to Health: Toward Sustainable Childbirth, Lisbon, 17-18 Sep 2018
Speaker 'Birth Undisturbed: The Story of Evan', at Women's Voices, Royal College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists, London, Oct 2017
Speaker 'The Telling of a Woman's Surreal Story', debut of 'The Whitechapel Woman' at Story Conference Carnival of Curiosity, Schermerhorn Symphony Centre, Nashville, Sep 2017
Speaker 'Victory Voyage, The Story of Evan' for IMUK (Independent Midwives UK) Eastwood House UK, Nottingham, Nov 2016
Speaker & judge at I Am Photographer Festival, Tallinn, Apr 2016
Photography Masters Conference Italy 2013
Norrlandsdagarna Sweden 2012
Keynote California Photo Festival 2012
Photokina 2010
Palm Springs Photo Festival 2010
Microsoft Pro Photo Summit & photowalks 2009
'Images' Le Hague Netherlands 2010
Art of Photography Show Lyceum Theatre San Diego, 2010
PRESS / PUBLICATIONS
For visual press links on Birth Undisturbed series see Press
Maternal Art magazine, July 2020 (Piece on Birth Rites Collection featuring Aquadural)
Shutr Magazine, Holland, 10 page feature Birth Undisturbed, Dec 2019
Colossal, August 2019
BJP Portrait of Humanity, Hoxton Press book, image 'Aquadural' from Birth Undisturbed
RPS 100 Heroines, Heroinic Stories, Nov 2018
Telegraph Magazine, Dec 2018
BBC World News, Oct 2018
The Metro, Oct 2018
The Mail Online, Oct 2018
The Sun, Oct 2018
The Daily Beast, Mar 2018
LBC Radio, March 2018
Saatchi Art One to Watch 2017
BBC, Jun 2016
PLASTIK magazine 10-page interview, Nov 2015
Duzhe / Readers, China, April 2015, Cover feature
ELLE Thailand, 2014
Fahrenheit Mexico, 2014
LENSCRATCH, 2012
Vogue Italia magazine, 2012
PHOTO+ (South Korea), Sep 2011, 10-page feature
The Guardian, 2011
Saatchi Art One to Watch, 2010
NY Arts, 2010
ALARM Chicago, 2010
Vanity Fair, 2009
The Metro, May 2009
American Photo, cover, May 2009
El Pais, 2008
BBC, 2007