Natalie Couch Explained

Birth Date:	1976
Nationality:	Māori
Known For:	printmaking and landscape architecture

Natalie Couch (born 1976) is a New Zealand artist and landscape architect. Her artwork is held in the permanent collection of the Auckland Art Gallery.^[1]

Biography

Couch graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Elam School of Fine Arts in 1998 and began exhibiting in 2003.^[2] She trained as a printmaker and is a member of the Māori print collective Toi Whakataa.^[3] She completed further study graduating with a Bachelor of Landscape Architecture in 2017.^[4]

Much of her artwork is in graphite on board.^[5] Couch's art explores how people respond to the tangible and intangible elements of their natural surroundings.

Couch is of Māori (Ngāti Tūwharetoa and Te Arawa), Scottish, English and French descent.^[6]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Natalie Couch . 2023-04-26 . Auckland Art Gallery . en.
2. Web site: Natalie Couch . 2023-04-26 . Kura Gallery: Maori and New Zealand Art + Design. . en-US.
3. Web site: Mua Ki Muri - Looking Back to the Future - Taupō District Council . 2023-04-26 . www.taupodc.govt.nz.
4. Book: Borell, Nigel . Toi Tū Toi Ora: Contemporary Māori Art . 2022-03-16 . Penguin Group . 978-0-14-377673-4.
5. Web site: Artists . 2023-04-26 . Toi Whakataa Press . en.
6. Web site: Natalie Couch - Maori mythology and magic Scoop News . 2023-04-26 . www.scoop.co.nz.