Nathalie Coste
Nathalie Coste is a French multidisciplinary artist based in Birnam and Dunkeld who is exploring radical forms of transformation and resistance through sculpture, installation, and participatory gatherings. Coste works across formats, often employing a micro-industrial approach — labour-intensive, resourceful, and defiantly handmade. Her concept of “decorative survival” reflects an aesthetic of improvisation and urgency, where sculptural objects become tools for storytelling and collective reflection.
She is currently developing Let’s Dough It!, a long-term project inspired by the petrified loaves of Pompeii. Using bread as both metaphor and material, the work explores the emotional weight of tradition, family dynamics, and the feminine labour of nourishment. Through sculptural bread making, sandstone tableware, and social gatherings, it invites collective reflection on cycles of collapse and continuity with food as a shared language of memory and resistance.
Her earlier works — textile sculptures, car parts, LED tickers, speculative digital environments — inhabit a more dystopian aesthetic.
Her recent work leans toward tactile intimacy, domestic symbolism, and the centuries-long political charge carried by bread.