Nat Ophelia Walpole (b. 1994) is a visual artist, community researcher, and writer based in Glasgow, Scotland.
Working primarily in paintings, drawings, and poetry –
she explores queer intimacies, subjectivity, and desire through mythopoetic narrative and auto-symbolist image making.
Her work is rooted in a community engaged research practice, and she facilitates reading/knowledge sharing groups within Glasgow and occasionally throughout Scotland.
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Education: BA(Hons) Painting and Printmaking, Glasgow School of Art, 2016
Selected Solo Exhibitions:
Move From This Place Like Dancers, Strange Field, Glasgow, 2025
SweetBitter, Intermedia Gallery, CCA Glasgow, 2024
Narcissus and I, Glasgow Project Room, 2021
Selected Group Exhibitions:Threshing / Holding, SETT Studios, Edinburgh, 2025
Nourishment, The Woom Room at Civic House, Glasgow 2023
Walk Don’t Walk, The Out of the Blue Drill Hall, Edinburgh, 2020
Glasgow Drawing School, The Cookhouse Gallery, Chelsea College of Arts, London, 2019
Community Research Projects: To Filth: a transfeminist reading group
A trans-feminist reading and collective knowledge sharing group, Glasgow Zine Library & Pluto Q, 2025-present.
To Filth Workshops:
- To Filth at Strange Field, Strange Field, Glasgow, 2025
Contact: tofilthtfrg@gmail.com
Un/Nature: A queer ecological reading group
A reading and knowledge sharing group on Queer and radical ecologies. Facilitated and organised with artist and researcher Dr Rowan Lear, Glasgow Zine Library, 2023-present.
Un/Nature Workshops:
- Reading group session for We Move as Murmuration, Timespan, Helmsdale, 2024
- Un/Nature: Queering the Shore, for Beyond Radical: Queering Elements, Ecologies, and Environments symposium at School of International Relations, University of St Andrews, 2024
Contact: unnaturalreader@gmail.com
Professional Development:The Out of the Blue Print, Printmaking Residency, a printmaking residency awarded to produce work for Out of the Blue Print’s Walk Don’t Walk exhibition, 2020
Queer Times School Prints Commission, A commission to produce an educational print on trans identity, kept in GOMA’s collection and available for use in schools in Scotland. Glasgow Gallery of Modern Art, 2020
In Residence: the Studio Pavilion Residency, House for an Art Lover, Glasgow 2019
Awards and Grants:The Visual Artist and Craft Makers Award Glasgow (VACMA), 2017 & 2025
Publications:Move From This Place Like Dancers, poetry pamphlet supported by VACMA, 2025
Unblemished: Stories of Trans Stigma, a research project and graphic novel documenting the stories of trans people experiencing mental health stigmatisation.
Produced for SeeMe Scotland’s Anti Stigma Art Fund, 2022.
Lectures and Talks:Creating Non-Fiction Comics, a panel discussion at Edinburgh Comics Art Festival, 2022
Press:SweetBitter by Nat Walpole (EXHIBITION REVIEW) by Rastko Novakovic for SNACK MAG, 2024
Last Updated: 14/02/26