For me, art is a way to express feelings and ideas that I can’t put into words — a way of contributing to the collective conversation in a manner that feels authentic to my being.
Ever since I was a child, I was drawn to film and video. During those early years of self-discovery, I became equally fascinated with documentary as I was with surrealist cinema.
My current practice is rooted in this juxtaposition — blending observation of life as we know it with an exploration into the unknowable nature of reality and our place within it.
My photographic practice is focused on the narrative potential of the medium. Creating new worlds from fragments of our own. Printmaking and bookbinding extend this process beyond the photograph itself, giving physical form to ideas through the objects I make.
The physical nature of film is of particular importance to my work, anchoring even the outer edges of perceptible reality to a factual record of time.
Nat Collins is an Australian artist exploring still and moving image through analogue film processes.
His practice operates at the intersection of documentary and surrealism, creating works that blur observation and fiction, inviting reflection on perception, memory, and place.
After completing a Diploma in Film at SAE in 2015, Collins worked extensively as a filmmaker, photographer, and creative director with nationally and internationally recognised brands and artists. Since late 2023, he has focused on developing his independent artistic practice, with his first body of work, A River Flows Into The Ocean, to be exhibited publicly for the first time in September 2026.
