An LKL Maths-Art seminar by Natalie Dower

Coherence requires rules based on knowledge, but with rapid dissemination of new information between disciplines the visual language to be used is, more than it ever was, the choice of the individual. This talk will cover some examples of interdisciplinary influence, particularly work based on the Dudeney Dissection, and will give consideration of appreciation and deconstruction of visual images by the viewer.

NATALIE DOWER trained at St Martin’s, Camberwell and the Slade. We are pleased to have Natalie speak at LKL at the same time as her tutor at Camberwell, Kenneth Martin, has a retrospective exhibition with his wife Mary Martin at Camden Arts Centre [ www.camdenartscentre.org] (moving to Tate St Ives and the De la Warr Pavilion at Bexhill-on-Sea).

Since Natalie moved away from figurative work in the mid-1960s she has been seen as a constructivist artist in the spirit of the Martins, employing a combination of geometry and system in her work. Her work encompasses both painting and sculpture. She finds structure is the vital element in painting so it is not surprising that she also creates reliefs and sculptures. Like Mary Martin’s work, their complexity grows out of the simplicity of the initiating ideas: to take an idea and open it out to show its richness. Her work on the square-to-triangle dissection puzzle by H E Dudeney has inspired her for many years.