Natalie Purschwitz is an artist and designer living and working on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations (also known as Vancouver, Canada).

Her research draws on modes of making that include collecting, accumulating, arranging, editing, and transforming materials. She is curious about the ways that landscapes are shaped by humans and nonhumans, through systems of organization, networks of support, and ruptures within these systems. By reconfiguring everyday objects and elemental substances, Purschwitz creates conditions for material events. She has a parallel practice designing costumes and sets for contemporary dance and theatre. Natalie grew up in a small town in the Canadian Rockies.