NATALIE LOVELESS is a Canadian conceptual artist, curator, writer, and professor of contemporary art history and theory in the Department of Art and Design at the University of Alberta. Her dialogic and instruction-based wall-drawing installations, performance actions, and video works have been presented in festivals, galleries and artist-run centers in North America, South America, Europe and Asia. Her recent artistic work explores feminist embodiment and material entanglement in the everyday, and she is currently at work on two book projects: one on artistic research and the Fine Arts PhD and the other on new feminist art and the maternal.

Wk14 Day6 from Maternal Prescriptions, Three-month daily practice project, 2010; image courtesy of the artist.