The Markers

Michael Reid Northern Beaches is delighted to present The Markers – our first exhibition from award-winning Boorloo/Perth-based contemporary painter Natalie Scholtz. Working across painting and drawing on canvas, paper and board, Scholtz draws on a deeply personal yet broadly resonant narrative shaped by her experience growing up in Western Australia, raised by immigrant parents of Persian and South African heritage.

Scholtz’s richly layered compositions delve into the in-between – where boundaries between self and other, human and non-human begin to dissolve amid sweeping, expressive painterly gestures. Faces merge, forms shift and subjects resist fixed definition, giving rise to images that are at once allegorical and intimate. Grounded in community and social exchange, her practice gives fluid form to the messy, fleshy intricacies of identity.

For enquiries, please email sophienolan@michaelreid.com.au