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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SweetBitter’s mythopoetic panorama


BY RASTKO NOVAKOVIC | SNACK MAG | 20/11/2024


“There is much to enjoy in the dramatic shifts between situation and symbol, between line and texture, specific vistas and impossible spaces. Entities and bodies sometimes bleed into each other or are separated through dense detail, plastic rendition and shadow. Then again, within the same canvas, the same body might trail off into a flat outline or hieroglyphic. A body might emerge from texture or as a negative space in a richly resolved landscape. This shimmering unrest is a way to render all these contradictions, and to hold them together...”

“...In ‘The Cessation of the World’ – a response to Courbet’s ‘Origin of the World’ (the famous and shocking crotch painting), Leda and multiple swans meet in a swirl. The birds are menacing, but also felled – they jump out of the canvas as deceptively realistic, since they are vessels for Zeus who has taken their form only to sexually violate Leda. Leda’s trans body is green, glowing – it could be rendered in metal or stone, or glimpsed in a vulnerable moment of rest. Anguish, sexual exploitation and commodification, meet cosmic erotic forces. The scene is loaded and unbearable...”


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The Cessation of the World, acrylic on canvas, 90 x 65cm, 2022 (£1000.00)