Bio

Nathalie Batraville is an artist who works with ceramics, collage, and text. In her ceramic art practice, she emphasizes relationality, rituals, and pleasure. Touching and shaping clay simultaneously mobilizes art, intimacy, environmental justice, and decolonial politics. She often juxtaposes botanical illustrations and text to generate new meanings.

Nathalie is the author of a book of collage poems in French, titled L’Amérique du Nord. She is completing a manuscript under contract with Duke University Press, titled Disruptive Agency: Towards a Black Feminist Anarchism. As the curator of the @black_ceramicsts page on Instagram, she hopes to celebrate black ceramic artists and create more possibilities for connection. She is also an Associate Professor at Concordia University’s Simone de Beauvoir Institute.