NATALIE MILLER

Natalie Miller is an internationally recognised textile artist known for her brightly coloured woven artworks and has also been practicing as an architect/interior designer for the last 30 years, working extensively with interiors particularly with textiles, carpet and fabric design.

Now based in the Southern Highlands, Natalie studied tapestry weaving at Sturt Art and Craft centre and has since studied tapestry each year at Kawashima textile school in Japan. She has been involved with numerous art/craft exhibitions and publications and has a studio at her Kangaloon property, primarily focused on hand dyeing and tapestry weaving. She has been teaching weaving and macramé for the last 8 years around Australia, New York, Paris, Hong Kong, Singapore, Japan, Bali, and Thailand.

Textile art has an enormous relationship with interior architecture. Natalie tries to explore textiles and how they can transform into an architectural space and complement one another. Natalie is extraordinarily passionate about colour and experiments with the palette when hand dyeing her wool and creating her brightly coloured artworks. She hand dyes all her wool and fabric from Australian grown and milled wool in natural dyes and Australian wool dyes.

In 2016, she made the biggest macramé chandelier in the world (two of them) in Pacific Place on Hong Kong Island for Chinese New Year. She has been involved with collaborations with other artists for art installations and fashion labels including ‘Romance Was Born’ and the Woolmark company. Natalie has also worked on the DreamWorks set for the movie 'Trolls 2' released in 2020 and interior collaborations with Anthropologie.

For OpenField, Natalie will be collaborating with Amanda Cole on a new commissioned piece, combining fibre art with sound art.