Installation shot of natural Forms at Neutral Ground, curated by John G. Hampton, 2010

In natural Forms, five contemporary Canadian artists produced works that investigated our relationship with nature through representation. Through aesthetics and ethics, lawn care and environmentalism, oil drilling and tree planting, or painting and writing; western culture has continually attempted to manufacture an authentic natural. The artists in natural Forms do not merely imitate nature, nor do they attempt solely to influence how we reconstruct nature through their representations; instead they critically investigate how our ever-changing societal ideals alter nature and our relationship with the “natural world.”