Natalie Papamichael is a figurative artist whose work emerges from a dialogue between her personal experiences and her study of art history, psychoanalysis, and feminism. Since studying for an MA in Art History, where she explored the exclusion of women from academic training and received art history, Natalie has combined her research with her studio practice and been training herself in the classical painting techniques of the Old Masters. Her paintings are created using masquerade, performance, and self-portraiture. Through creating and re-writing, her own personal narratives she seeks to intervene into phallocentric art history and to question the position of women as both subject and object. Her recent work has developed to become much more overtly political.