Living on Yawuru country in the Kimberley region of Western Australia, Naomie Hatherley is a multidisciplinary artist/mother/educator who works across painting, drawing, sculpture, video, performance and textiles.

Drawing inspiration from art history and experiences living in regional Western Australia, her practice is concerned with the physical embodiment of the female form in space, and is rooted in a curiosity about the intersection of body language, thought and experience.

Making use of materials embedded with time, Naomie’s artmaking aims to reposition the female body as a source of power and awe through ritual, repetition and movement to challenge her own internal conditioning and the narratives that shape an individual, gendered and national identity.

Naomie Hatherley completed an MVA (Monash 2012), a Bachelor of Arts/Fine Arts (UWA, 1994). August 2022 ‘Keeping Score’ was acknowledged by PM, Anthony Albanese, in a speech as an important contribution. In 2020, undertook two FAC residencies to develop a body of work, exhibited at Cool Change Contemporary in 2021 and Moore’s Contemporary Gallery in 2022 with Melbourne Cricket Club acquisition of two works for their museum collection followed by solo exhibition at Brunswick Street Gallery; awarded Kimberley Art Prize 2012, 2018, 19 & 22; Shinju Art Awards 2012, 2018 & 20; selected for the John Curtin Alternative Archive regional art survey touring exhibition (2022-23). Invited to participate in Form’s 2019 Hedland Art Prize, received High commendations at the Minnawarra Art Prize (2010 & 2011); invited to exhibit for Bunbury Regional Art Gallery’s South-West Showcase (Spin Cycle, 2010), and Heathcote Museum and Gallery (Spin Cycle, 2012).