Natalie Holland is a Russian-born Norweigan-based contemporay artist.
Born in 1962 in St. Petersburg to Russian parents, Holland grew up near the Black Sea before commencing music studies at the age of 12. Her mother, who like the majority of Russian parents had great ambitions for her child, wanted Holland to become a pianist, a profession that in her eyes was safe and prestigious. Holland, however, had other ideas and convinced her mother to al...
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Natalie Holland is a Russian-born Norweigan-based contemporay artist.
Born in 1962 in St. Petersburg to Russian parents, Holland grew up near the Black Sea before commencing music studies at the age of 12. Her mother, who like the majority of Russian parents had great ambitions for her child, wanted Holland to become a pianist, a profession that in her eyes was safe and prestigious. Holland, however, had other ideas and convinced her mother to allow her to take on art as well as music studies, and after years of hard work and determination she left the conservatoire in St. Petersburg as a graduate of art.
In 1981 Holland moved to Norway with her mother who had met and married a Norwegian. Within years of arriving she had herself married and had a daughter.
However, Holland’s life was to take a turn after meeting Norwegian art’s 'enfant terrible' Odd Nerdrum. The much celebrated, and equally controversial, painter saw some of Holland’s figurative works and asked her to come to his...
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