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Natalie Taylor

Keepers of the Soil, Natalie Taylor, 2021. Wool, cotton, soil samples, beeswax envelopes.

Natalie Taylor is a Scottish artist currently working with creative landscape interventions, clothing and events to highlight the fragile but vital relationship between our soils, food systems, pollinators and the expanded web of life.

Recent exhibitions include: Earth Matters (2026) and Living Soil (2023) both at Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh; Earthbound (2025) Bridderhaus, Luxembourg; and Women’s Work Is Never Done (2024) Richard Saltoun Gallery, London.

She has also created temporary living installations for Goethe Institut London and Weimar, (2020) and is currently watching a new one grow at Lauriston Farm, Edinburgh.

She dedicates her practice to creating spaces and moments in time for the public to reconnect with nature, and uses visual forms such as clothing to share complex information about our ecosystems and their impact on our lives. Once such example is Keepers of the Soil (2021) which was worn by over 20 people during Pilgrimage for COP 26.

Taylor’s work also explores the intersection between our food systems on a global level and the minutiea of micro-organisms within the soil, making visible the palpable but hidden parallels between our own microbiomes and those of the Earth. She has also committed to working within a sustainable practice framework, since 2019.