Natalie Lennard

Creation of Man- Staged Chiaroscuro Photograph of Birth Scene Black+Blue+Orange

2017

"Ejection Reflex" is part of international artist, Natalie Lennard's series Birth Undisturbed. “Attending births is like growing roses. You have to marvel at the ones that just ope...

"Aquadural" is part of international artist Natalie Lennard's series Birth Undisturbed. - See our storefront at Gallery 1202 for the other works in this series “The baby doesn’t co...

"Salle Sauvage" is part of international artist, Natalie Lennard's series Birth Undisturbed. “The bearing of children ought to become as free from danger and long debility to civilised woman as it is to the savage.”— Thomas Huxley ‘Salle Sauvage’ translates to ‘primitive room’, a term coined by renowned obstretician Michel Odent in reference to his hospital in Pithiviers, France, with rooms designed to accommodate the primal instincts of labouring women. Here, a glass Cube set within the urban landscape of London becomes a metaphor for Odent’s primitive room and a woman’s connection with nature through homebirth. It is as though the walls of a living room have become transparent admitting our spectatorship into the private space of a birthing woman, perhaps for our enlightenment as well as vicariousness. “Buscar la forma” say the women of the Yucatan in Mexico, meaning to find your style, in contrast to the Western medical model...

"Royal Blood" is part of international artist, Natalie Lennard's series Birth Undisturbed. "When the Queen’s parents suggested she move to a quieter room away from the crowds of well-wishers heard from the front of the Palace, she refused, insisting 'I want my baby to be born in my own room, amongst the things I know.'" Prince Edward was born 10 March 1964 in the Belgian Suite at Buckingham Palace, attended by midwife Helen Rowe and ob-gyn John Harold Peel. The last of Queen Elizabeth II’s children, it was the first to be active and conscious, at a time when “twilight sleep” - knocking out the mother and delivering via forceps - was beginning to phase out. All the Queen’s children were Royal homebirths. Her first birth in 1948 had already marked the end of centuries’ long tradition of Royal observation. Historically, at the birth of any potential heir to the throne, the room would be crowded with ladies-in-waiting, midwives, servants, and doctors, near crushing Marie Antoinette to death in 1778. With the birth of her fourth and final child, the Queen was said to lay down the terms for how she wanted to deliver, breaking yet another tradition by having her husband present. Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, had always been a nervous expectant father and historically had chosen to spend the Queen’s labors swimming and playing squash. This time he stayed at her bedside holding her hand, the first male Royal partner to be present in the room in years. In our modern form of collective mass-observation, the whole world watched the two Royal births of Prince William and Kate Middleton...

"Art is Dead" (FRAMED) Photography 36" x 36" inch Edition 2/7 by Brendan North Size framed: 41" x 41" inch Other sizes available per request ABOUT: Brendan North is a fine art phot...

"Product of War" Photography 24" x 36" inch Edition of 7 by Brendan North ships rolled in a tube ABOUT: Brendan North is a fine art photographer based in Los Angeles. Having built ...

"Fragile" (FRAMED) Photography 34" x 28" inch Edition 1/7 by Brendan North Size framed: 38" x 32" inch Other sizes available per request ABOUT: Brendan North is a fine art photogra...

Caroline (Deep Sleep) (FRAMED) Photography 30"x40" in Ed. of 3 by Larsen Sotelo FRAMED Giclee (Archival Ink) print on 310G Platine Fibre Cotton Rag w/satin finish 40” X 30” inch ...