Nathalie Coste

Nathalie Coste is a French visual artist based in Southeast London. Her multidisciplinary practice explores radical forms of transformation and resistance through sculpture, installation, and participatory gatherings. 

Coste works across formats, often employing a micro-industrial approach—labour-intensive, resourceful, and defiantly hand-made. Her concept of “decorative survival” reflects an aesthetic of improvisation and urgency, where sculptural objects become tools for storytelling and collective reflection. 

Currently part of the cohort at TOMA (The Other MA), she is developing B.R.E.A.D., a long-term project inspired by the petrified loaves of Pompeii. The work uses bread as both metaphor and material to explore the emotional weight of tradition, family dynamics, and the feminine labour of nourishment. Through sculptural bread making, sandstone tableware, and social gatherings, the project invites people to reflect on cycles of collapse and continuity, using food as a shared language of memory and resistance. 

Her earlier works have included textile sculptures, car parts, LED tickers and speculative digital environments. While those pieces inhabit a more dystopian aesthetic, her recent work leans toward tactile intimacy, domestic symbolism, and the political aspect carried by the bread through the centuries. 

For Coste, art is not a retreat from the world. It’s a place to hold its complexity with humour, sensuality, and care.