Nathalie Hollis

Nathalie Hollis is a London-based artist whose practice translates visual scenes into physical experiences through lyrical and expressive mark-making. A recent graduate of the Royal Drawing School and Camberwell College of Arts, her work captures the urgency and dynamism of life in movement, often drawing inspiration from theatre and performance.

Harnessing the immediacy of her medium, Hollis’ drawings tread the careful line between chaos and composure, dictated by intuitive and moment-to-moment decision-making. Lovers and fighters feature prominently in her recent work, where bodies lose their boundaries, transmuting into new forms bound by both tension and softness. Her larger pieces layer figures in movement, allowing moments and bodies in time to collide and become whole.

There is a physicality, a near-ferocity in Hollis’ mark-making, with each strike acting as the pulse of the work, putting it into living motion. Fixated on the body as both a vehicle of expression and a site of translation, she explores how language is lodged inside it.