Nat Faulkner

In his work Nat Faulkner often combines archetypal motifs and imagery with references to popular culture and recent events; in many cases this amalgamation draws from what is considered both ‘high’ and ‘low’ culture, and is concerned with the resulting clash. The artist is particularly interested in rapid evolutions of cultural sources, often favouring the copy or adaptation over the original. These references extend broadly from ancient civilisations to Science Fictions, to film and television, to art history and the natural world. This means that his approach to history is eclectic, celebrating anachronism and ‘alternative fact’.

Faulkner takes loaded, iconic objects and symbolic images from both real and fictitious worlds and re-presents them; they appear familiar yet at the same time uncannily different or altered, the effect of this renders the work simultaneously elusive and accessible.