Natalie Purschwitz is an artist living and working on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̍əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and Sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil-Waututh) people. Thinking about earth – as a complexity of materials, a location, a temporal range, a perspective, an intelligence, a system within systems, a geometric configuration, an embodiment of motion and a life-supporting loam – has become the primary substance of her research. She draws from personal experience, daily practice/observation and theoretical discourse to coax out relational clusters of meaning, correspondences and visual strands to form a matrix of interconnected nodes. Purschwitz has shown her work nationally and internationally at the Vancouver Art Gallery, Polygon Gallery (North Vancouver), Plug In ICA (Winnipeg), the Japanese Canadian National Museum (Burnaby), the McMichael Canadian Art Collection (Kleingburg, ON), the Prince Takamato Gallery (Tokyo, Japan), Canada House (London, UK) and AGX Galerie (Tehran, Iran).