Nathalie Hankir is a British-born, Swedish-Lebanese PhD researcher and artist at Central Saint Martins. Her work explores hunting in rural Sweden as a folkloric, masculine ritual shaped by silence, skill, and tradition. Drawing on philosophy, anthropology, sociology, and phenomenology, she studies the emotional lives of objects—firearms, taxidermy, knives, heirlooms—and the men who carry them, revealing a quieter and obscure type of luxury rooted in Nordic ideals of restraint and closeness to nature.

Nathalie’s artistic practice extends these inquiries into visual and material forms, with Nordic nature as her enduring muse. Through photography and painting, she explores the landscapes, rituals, and artifacts of rural life, capturing both their physical presence and their fleeting, poetic traces. Her work blurs the line between ethnography and art, observation and imagination, preserving the textures, rhythms, and whispers of a world shaped by the changing seasons.

DOCTORAL RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

EDUCATION
2023 - 2027 | PhD Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London
2024 - 2024 | CPD Philosophy of Religion, University of Oxford
2021 - 2022 | Master of Arts, University of London
2018 - 2020 | Bachelor of Arts, University of the Arts London

CONFRENCES
2024 | Cambridge Creative Research Conference

EXHIBITIONS & PRESENTATIONS
2024 | Bookmark (Research-in-progress), Central Saint Martins, London
2024 | RNUAL Summer Symposium, UAL Doctoral School, London

FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS
2025, Hankir. N, Artistic Expressions in the Nordic Wilderness, London

MEMBERSHIPS
Research Society, UAL SU
Drama Society, UAL SU