15/10/2026
Ellie is back! ๏ฟฝ๏ฟฝ
Ellie is a young art lover with a wild and inquisitive mind. Every now and then, sheโll pop in at Te Uru to visit our exhibitions and to engage with the exhibiting artists about their works. This time she spoke to Nat Tozer about her video installation in the exhibition ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ณ๐ข๐ค๐ฌ๐ญ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ถ๐ฏ. This is:๏ฟฝ๏ฟฝ
๐๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ต ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ณ๐ต๐ช๐ด๐ต โ ๐ธ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ ๐๐ญ๐ญ๐ช๐ฆ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅโฆ Nat Tozer!
Tฤmaki Makaurau-based Nat Tozer is an artist and arts worker interested in the revision of folk tales and ancient mythologies into contemporary local ecologies. She has a penchant for weird tunnelling and digging, anarchist anthropology and network theories, often splicing expanded geological inquiry with science fiction. She seeks to interrogate her relationship with placeโby attempting to dig, cast, frottage, film, animate, and imagine the world around her.
In ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ณ๐ข๐ค๐ฌ๐ญ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ถ๐ฏ Nat shows ๐๐ณ๐ฐ๐ต๐ช๐ค ๐๐ฆ๐ฐ๐ญ๐ฐ๐จ๐ช๐ฆ๐ด (2024), an ambitious Sci-Fi parable, which explores the relationships between land, mythology and the ways we understand the world beneath us. Moving between a earthquake-scarred terrain, referencing ลtautahi and the volcanic landscapes of Tongariro, the film follows Rangi and Libertรฉโs journey and realization that the earth is not as a resource to possess, but as a living archive of histories, relations and futures. Drawing on Mฤori narratives of Ranginui and Papatลซฤnukuโs children, alongside the Greek myth of Deucalion and Pyrrha, Tozer considers how archaeology, deep time and kaitiakitanga might unsettle dominant ideas of linear time and history, inviting other, more embodied ways of relating to the land.
