Art360: Nat Sly

Originally from London, Sly was brought up in Argentina where she ran an art gallery before moving to Portugal where she now lives and works. On moving to Europe she explored work as a creative director, creating cohesive visual worlds for her clients with projects that include hotels and restaurants across the continent.

Her project, Dora Daar, co-founded with Pepi de Boissieu, was a way to continue her deep interest in interiors, while adding a focus on creativity built through a more conscious approach. Working with craftsmen and women, Sly and De Boissieu focused on designs that celebrate traditional techniques and cultivate a new type of luxury in everyday objects.

The work takes inspiration from the inexhaustibly variable patterns of nature, the straight lines and right angles of architecture, and color as it relates to both tangible natural material as well as mercurial emotional reverberations. Through a combination of form and color, Sly flattens and layers the complexities of the world around her, capturing and quieting its tensions within the lines of her work and fibers of the paper.

Her works are direct, intense and vibrant. As a group, they compel you to skip from one to another, finding similarities and differences, searching for connections, until you slow into an acknowledgment that each is a singular declaration within the greater collection. Color, form and space have always been central to the way in which Sly operates with the world whether for outside clients or within her personal space. This exhibition marks an exciting moment of personal exploration and artistic experimentation as she distills her years of spatial creativity into an intimate and personal output.

Art360 is an ongoing series in our 360 Atlantic Avenue space that showcases the work of artists that we love and want to celebrate. Informed by the past, speaking to the future and placing you in the present, art in your home is more than decoration - it frames and reflects who you are within that. Through ART360 we are excited to present artists that have both the aesthetic strength and the conceptual depth to ground their work in continued relevance and ongoing interest.