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Natalie Woolf

Natalie Woolf is an artist/researcher/professor and innovator. Woolf originally trained in Fine Arts, then set up her own design practice for surface products, being commissioned for site-specific installations and exhibiting internationally with the Crafts Council UK and USA, several years at 100% Design UK and Italy, and having group and solo shows in the UK, Japan and Switzerland.

Her PhD from the Royal College of Art (London) was recognised with a patent and exhibited at InnovationRCA and the British Inventors awards at the Barbican, London, leading her design practice for interior and exterior surfaces into animated and responsive technologies.

She has carried out commissioned works and extensive studies for the implementation of arts’ practice in the public domain, for public and private consortiums. Working in this area reflects a strong interest in location, community and site specific interventions, and influenced her fine art practice with a sensitivity to natural and unnatural ecologies looking for ways to expand on and express our located histories and sensory experience through visual means.

Woolf is a senior lecturer and integrated researcher at Lusófona University, in Lisbon, participating as a practitioner and author in publications and academic events. She is a co-curator for the Drawing programs at DELLI, Design Lusófona, and teaches various subjects exploring drawing in expanded fields and modes of research, within the Design and Animation BA and MA courses. She currently lives and works in Lisbon, where she is a permanent resident at Atelier Concorde.