Biography

Natalie Pullen is a Dublin-based visual artist. She makes abstract paintings which reference landscape and organic forms, informed by her body’s relationship to the land in unique ecological environments. Her most recent work is informed by remote, rural residencies in Cill Rialaig Artist’s Village in Co. Kerry (2025) and Joya AiR, a climate-positive arts research centre within Parque Natural Sierra Maria in the driest part of Europe (2024).

In 2024 she exhibited a solo exhibition Strata in the Ballina Arts Centre, and in the Sample Studios Summer Exhibition in Cork City. 2023 exhibitions include Strange Signals in Ardgillan Castle Gallery, Both, and at the Platform Arts Centre (solo), and residency, commission and group exhibition at Abbeyleix House and Farm. Previous exhibitions include Meet me on the Astral Plane (solo 2021) and group exhibitions in Rua Red and Pallas Projects in Dublin. Natalie has been awarded national and international residencies, and received funding and awards from the Irish Arts Council (Visual Artists Bursary, 2020), Fingal Co. Council (2020, 2021, 2022) and Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown Co. Council (2020, 2023).

Her work has been collected privately and publicly in Ireland, the UK and the USA, including by Weston Airport and the OPW Irish State Art Collection. She has facilitated workshops in Ireland’s leading art institutions, including IMMA, the RHA and Temple Bar Gallery and Studios. Natalie is a professional member of Visual Artists Ireland, and received her BA Paint and Visual Culture (2017) and her MA H1 Art in the Contemporary World (2019) from NCAD. From 2019 - 2023 she was a managing member of Abbey Artist Studios in Dublin city, from 2023-2025 she was based in Sample Studios Cork while completing her Professional Master’s of Art & Design Education (MTU/UCC, 2025, H1).