Natalie Lennard (b. 1986) is a fine-art and commercial photographer whose work has been exhibited in the Saatchi Gallery, Houses of Parliament and Waldermarsudde Museum Sweden, and regularly featured in international media including BBC World, NY Arts, and El Pais. Her distinctive vision has fused classical with modern to create an intricate balance of contemporary creativity exhibited and published extensively worldwide for the past 14 years.
Motherhood inspired her series ‘Birth Undisturbed’ depicting births of icons from the Virgin Mary to Calamity Jane and the Queen, which won the 12th Julia Margaret Cameron Award and ND Photographer of the Year 2020.
Projects
- Birth Undisturbed’Birth Undisturbed' is an award-winning fictional narrative series by British photographer Natalie Lennard. Travelling through the world and history to depict birth from ancient to modern, and squalid to famous, the series depicts stories of woman both real and imagined. Using images and video to examine current Western birth ideology, the artist strives to speak a new language by bringing key figureheads and writers from the realm of birth philosophy into cinematic and compelling stories. Birth
- Surreal FashionSurreal Fashion is a series of dream-like visual worlds with allusions to both couture photography and classical artworks. The artist's detailed compositions, with their mixture of styles and evocative lighting, arouse associations to archaic palatial settings, Rococo Revival and is a form of contemporary commentary on the artistic expression found in salon paintings of the 18th century. Many of the images notably feature elements from classical paintings including Adriaen van Utrecht, Melchio