Nathalie Levi is an English/French young artist and curator who has studied and exhibited in London, Newcastle upon Tyne and Melbourne. She used to work really hard to make big, ambitious sculptures until -exhausted- she decided to figure out ways to get other people to do things for her instead. So far so good; Nathalie has been commissioning work from various people then buying it and all their rights (regardless of merit). By no longer actually producing works of art herself and limiting the art materials for the participants in her commissioning projects she is responding to an age old criticism, that is becoming increasingly popular in the current global environmental crisis, that art is a waste of resources. Nathalie’s other endeavours include selling ideas on Ebay for buyers to carry out, enlisting fictional famous artists to work for her for minimal pay and sending fake stories to the local press. This recent work investigates issues of originality, artistic integrity and authenticity in an unusual and provocative way that often involves alter egos, per-formative elements, parodies, voluntary exploitation and lies. With straight-faced, unacknowledged humour she simultaneously undermines and reinforces methods of artistic production, valuation and exchange.