PGCertHighE (Otago), MA (Canterbury), PhD (Otago)Contact details
Room 6C23, Richardson Building
Tel +64 3 479 5204
Email natalie.smith@otago.ac.nz
Natalie comes from a sociology of art and culture background. Her primary areas of research interest are New Zealand fashion design and the social and cultural factors that influence design.
She is particularly interested in the relationship between gender, work and design; craft; textile design; and the art/fashion nexus.
Natalie has a longstanding interest in arts governance and has served on the boards of several not-for-profit arts organisations in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Teaching
Supporting 100-level Sociology papers
SOCI 101 Sociology of New Zealand Society
SOCI 102 Cultural and Social Identities
SOCI 103 Crime, Deviance and Social Transformation
Publications
Smith, N. (2023). Reflections on matriliny through pinky peach coloured glass. Exhibited at the Whakapapa, Ancestry and Contemporary Fashion Practice Exhibition, Skinner Annexe, Otago Museum, Otepoti Dunedin, New Zealand [Artwork]. [Design].
Design
Smith, N. (2023, April). Smoke and mirrors: Smokefree sponsorship and the reconceptualization of New Zealand fashion design. Verbal presentation at the 25th Annual International Foundation of Fashion Technology Institutes (IFFTI) Conference, Otepoti Dunedin, Aotearoa New Zealand.
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
Smith, N. (2022-2023). Q. and A. with The Chills frontman Martin Phillipps and the curators of Kaleidoscope World: Forty years of Flying Nun Katherine Milburn and Amanda Mills. Context, 43, 145-148. [Performance/Film/Composition Review].
Journal - Research Other
Smith, N. (2022-2023). [Review of the exhibition Drift]. Context, 43, 149-155. [Performance/Film/Composition Review].
Journal - Research Other
Bell, V., & Smith, N. (2022). Gift: Reflections on journeys, knowledge, labour and love [Exhibition report]. Scope: Art & Design, 23, 57-67. doi: 10.34074/scop.1023018
Journal - Professional & Other Non-Research Articles
Smith, N. (2022). Ensor, Kura Te Whiria. In Dictionary of New Zealand Biography: Te Ara: The encyclopedia of New Zealand. Wellington, New Zealand: Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved from https://teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/6a3/ensor-kura-te-whiria
Chapter in Book - Research
Smith, N. (2019). New Zealand wearable art and the craft conundrum. In K. U. Māhina-Tua, K. Chitham & D. Skinner (Eds.), Crafting Aotearoa: A cultural history of making in New Zealand and the wider Moana Oceana. (pp. 322-324). Wellington, New Zealand: Te Papa Press.
Chapter in Book - Research
Smith, N. (2019). Slow fashion and craft activism. In K. U. Māhina-Tua, K. Chitham & D. Skinner (Eds.), Crafting Aotearoa: A cultural history of making in New Zealand and the wider Moana Oceana. (pp. 367-368). Wellington, New Zealand: Te Papa Press.
Chapter in Book - Research
Smith, N. (2017). The modern girl: Dale Austen, Miss New Zealand, in Hollywood. In R. Bell (Ed.), New Zealand between the wars. (pp. 256-279). Auckland, New Zealand: Massey University Press.
Chapter in Book - Research
Smith, N. (2014). Food and fashion: Establishing a critical distance from the "...mess". In P. Stupples (Ed.), Art and food. (pp. 133-145). Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars.
Chapter in Book - Research
Radner, H., & Smith, N. (2013). Fashion, feminism and the neo-feminist ideal: From Coco Chanel to Jennifer Lopez. In S. Bruzzi & P. Church Gibson (Eds.), Fashion cultures revisited: Theories, explorations and analysis. (pp. 275-286). Abingdon, UK: Routledge.
Chapter in Book - Research
Webster, E., & Smith, N. (2012). Black as a fashionable colour. In D. de Pont (Ed.), Black: The history of black in fashion, society and culture in New Zealand. (pp. 80-101). Auckland, New Zealand: Penguin.
Chapter in Book - Research
Smith, N., & Radner, H. (2011). NOM*d: Conceptual couture in Dunedin. In H. Radner & N. Smith (Eds.), NOM*d: The art of fashion. (pp. 13-34). Dunedin and Gore, New Zealand: Centre for Research on National Identity, University of Otago, and the Eastern Southland Gallery.
Chapter in Book - Research
Smith, N. (2022). Collage and critical thinking: What the pop artists taught me about doing sociology. Scope: Learning & Teaching, 11, 40-47. doi: 10.34074/scop.4011007
Journal - Research Article
Smith, N. (2021). "It's in a box in my wardrobe": "Re-searching" the practices of New Zealand women fashion designers. Scope: Art & Design, 21, 36-39. doi: 10.34074/scop.1021004
Journal - Research Article
Smith, N. (2019). From formality to fluidity: Fraser Crowe, “art as fashion, fashion as art,” twenty years on. Scope: Art & Design, 2019(17), 8-16. doi: 10.34074/scop.1017001
Journal - Research Article
Smith, N. (2004). The wearables and the Montana World of Wearable Art™ Awards: What it is and what it means. Journal of New Zealand Art History, 25, 33-44.
Journal - Research Article
Smith, N. (2022-2023). [Review of the exhibition Drift]. Context, 43, 149-155. [Performance/Film/Composition Review].
Journal - Research Other
Smith, N. (2022-2023). Q. and A. with The Chills frontman Martin Phillipps and the curators of Kaleidoscope World: Forty years of Flying Nun Katherine Milburn and Amanda Mills. Context, 43, 145-148. [Performance/Film/Composition Review].
Journal - Research Other
Smith, N. (2022). [Review of the book Dressed: Fashionable dress in Aotearoa New Zealand 1840 to 1910]. Context, 42, 104-107. [Book Review].
Journal - Research Other
Smith, N. (2022). [Review of the exhibition Fashion FWD >> Disruption through design]. Context, 42, 88-94. [Performance/Film/Composition Review].
Journal - Research Other
Smith, N. (2020). [Review of the exhibition Sāmoa no uta (A Song About Sāmoa)]. Context, 40, 77-82. [Performance/Film/Composition Review].
Journal - Research Other
Smith, N., & Bell, V. (2018). Unbound: The exhibition: Project report. Scope: Art & Design, 16, 8-15.
Journal - Research Other
Smith, N. (2017). [Review of the exhibition Stone cold cuts]. Blue Oyster, 2016, 58-60.
Journal - Research Other
Smith, N. (2017). When Dreams Turn to Gold: The Benson & Hedges and Smokefree Fashion Design Awards. Context, 34, 7-14.
Journal - Research Other
Smith, N. (2016). [Review of the exhibition iD2K16]. Blue Oyster, 2015, 21.
Journal - Research Other
Smith, N. (2016). [Review of the exhibition Margarita Robertson 3.33.12]. Australasian Journal of Popular Culture, 5, 220-223.
Journal - Research Other
Smith, N. (2015). [Review of the exhibition Whetu Tirikatene-Sullivan: Travel in style]. Textile History, 46(2), 266-268.
Journal - Research Other
Smith, N. (2015/2016). [Review of the exhibition The Brook Project, South Dunedin]. Context, 31, 34-39.
Journal - Research Other