Narelle Dore is a London-based artist working at the intersection of site-responsive installation and material-led practice. Her work spans installation, works on paper and textile-based forms, using natural materials as active participants rather than passive mediums.

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Rooted in long-term material research, her practice draws on earth pigments, natural dyes and fibre processes developed through study with master artisans in Mexico and India. Through performative acts of mark-making and material action, she establishes conditions in which gravity, weight, touch and time determine form.

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Through a process she calls colouring, colour is not applied to compose an image but to initiate an event. Marks are produced through gesture, transfer and depletion. Works are resolved through natural systems such as physical limits, material exhaustion and gravity rather than through compositional decision.

 

Her work has been exhibited in London and realised in site-responsive contexts internationally.