Nat Tozer explores narratives of the underground to unearth objects and knowledge. Working across moving image, materiality and social sculpture, she is interested in folk tales, the revision of mythologies into a local ecologies, tunnelling, anarchist anthropology and network theories. She is the founder and curator of mothermother, a offering to our local arts ecology that strives to promote and prioritise gift, reciprocity and intergenerational knowledge building.

Tozer holds an MFA with first-class honours (2022) and a PGDipFA with Distinction (2020) from the University of Auckland Waipapa Taumata Rau. During her time at Elam she received The Lightship Award which funded the presentation of an open-air 110m video work at The Ports of Auckland, a summer scholarship, an academic scholarship, was selected for the Emerging Artists Show at Sanderson Gallery. Recent exhibitions and screenings include Navigating Slowly, Gus Fisher Gallery (2026); Dialogues in Video Art, Works from the Chartwell Collection and Elam Artists, George Fraser Gallery (2025); A Sapling to Tie, Masons Screen Commission (2025); Erotic Geologies, Gow Langsford Onehunga (2024); The Metamodern in Literature, Art, Education, and Indigenous Cosmologies: An Interdisciplinary Symposium at AUT (2023); Deucalion & Pyrrha for Sluice Screens at IMT Gallery, London (2023) and Sluice Biennial supported by PADA Residency and Lisbon Art Weekend (2022).

Ann Shelton (b. 1967, Pākehā/Italian) identifies as queer, lives in Aotearoa New Zealand and exhibits internationally. Her first solo museum exhibition in the US was hosted by Alice Austen House, whose Press also published her recent award-winning artist book worm, root, wort…& bane, both in 2024. This was the most recent of several solo and group exhibitions in the United States, over the last decade. 2025 also saw significant exhibitions of Shelton’s work in European Museums and festivals including Saatchi Gallery, London, Centre Photographie, Geneve, Switzerland, Getxophoto 2025, Getxo, Spain, Museum Sinclair-Haus, Bad Homburg, Germany and at BIO 28 Double Agent: Do you speak flower?, 28th Biennial of Design, Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Shelton’s work engages with questions around the disciplined body, and how that discipline is organised around gender, sexuality, misogyny, medicine, food, or crime. Her most recent research dialogues with plant knowledge and the impacts of plants on the body, particularly their history relating to medicinal practices. It draws on the re-construction of the role of women in Western Society since the witch hunts in early modern Europe, the role of plants historically in reproductive contexts, and the relationship to contemporary feminisms and the current climate emergency. Shelton’s work has been extensively reviewed in publications including Artforum, Hyperallergic, artnet news, and Evergreen Review. Her work is collected in public and private contexts throughout Aotearoa, Australia, Europe, and North America. Shelton is Honorary Research Fellow in Photography at Whiti o Rehua, School of Art, Massey University, Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa.