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movement allowed her the time and space to complete the transition from figurative painting, and to evolve her own individual style. Throughout her time abroad she often returned to the UK, to exhibit work in solo and group shows, to work as an A level exam marker, and to give lectures: in 2007 she gave a talk entitled
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She was also included in several important group exhibitions including the
Hayward Annual (in 1982) and the Countervail exhibitions in 1992 and 1993. More recent group exhibitions included Réalités Nouvelles, Paris (2012), Panel Paintings: Eagle Gallery, London (2013), Austin/Desmond Fine Art, London
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Her interest in colour and the quality of light led, in 1966, to her moving to
Morocco to live and teach at the American School in Tangier, and in 1976 she moved to Portugal, for the rest of her life dividing her time between London and Portugal. Her physical detachment from the London-based systems
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Dower's first solo show was at the
Concourse Gallery at the Polytechnic of Central London (1979). This was followed by individual shows at: Air Gallery (1983); Gummesons Konstgalleri, Stockholm (1986); Transformations (1987), Transformations 2 (1990), The Secret Life of the Grid (1992) and Out of
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The title of the 2010 Square Root 2 paintings refers to a rectangle whose halves have the same proportion as does the whole, or any further ‘halvings’. This series of paintings was initially influenced by Dower's experience of the quality of light in
Morocco, where she noticed that things far away
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Natalie Dower trained first at St
Martins, transferring to Camberwell after a year, and moving to the Slade in 1949. Here, the emphasis was on figurative drawing, and Dower's early works are in the figurative tradition. Nearly a decade later, while teaching at Corsham, she developed an interest in
166:, oil on wood). Her first sculpture was produced in 1980; while working on a rule-related problem for a working drawing for a painting, she realized that the solution lay in creating the work in three dimensions. These works sometimes incorporate materials including wood or perspex, e.g.
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Natalie Dower created an individual visual language; while her imagery was derived from geometric elements and mathematical principles, she made the point that the painting must work even without the viewer's awareness of the system behind it.
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A sequence of works in the 1980s takes for inspiration the 'Dudeney
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131:. She taught at St Albans and Camberwell School of Art, Bath Academy of Art, Corsham, Byam Shaw and the Chelsea School of Art. She was the subject of a 1958 portrait by her fellow student Patrick George, which was bought by the Tate in 1961.
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Dower's work is in public and private collections around the world, including the Arts
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Constructivism, as was being taught by her colleague
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