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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InstagramExhibition: Move From This Place Like Dancers
6 – 21 September 2026
Strange Field | 105 French St, Glasgow G40 4EH, UK
Two symbols of transfeminine experience encounter each other in cycles of birth, death, and re-birth. They meet in many aspects; lovers, enemies, sisters, and mothers. Slipping across each other as deific icons, gestures, landscapes, more-than-human life, and human subjects.
Move From This Place Like Dancers is an exhibition of paintings and drawings – and a publication of poetry and lyrical prose – by Glasgow based artist and writer Nat Ophelia Walpole. Drawing on personal experiences and activist work, she seeks to explore transness beyond its political meaning. Inviting encounters with the potential for personal, spiritual, sensorial, and social transformation through vivid mythopoetic paintings, drawings, and lyrical text.
The opening of this exhibition included a poetry reading from the Move From This Place Like Dancers publication which concluded with a ritual altar setting and hand cleansing performance-ceremony.
Presented as part of our September Open Call, this exhibition is supported by Strange Field’s Open Program