Bio
Natasha was born in Zimbabwe in 1978 and raised from a young age in Zambia, the birthplace of both her parents. In her early twenties Natasha studied at The Arts Institute at Bournemouth where she earned a bachelor’s degree with honors in Illustration. Natasha lives and works as a full time artist in Lusaka, Zambia. Natasha creates contemporary mixed media works that see fluid shifts and overlaps in abstraction and figuration.
Her work explores selfhood, dark and light, strength and fragility, presence and absence. Natasha extracts resources from her the physical, social and cultural environment and is interested in the interplay of the shared human experience within these. She uses painting, drawings, words, metaphor, symbolism, conceptual thinking, and processes of making, expressively.
Of British heritage but having lived in Africa her whole life, she feels urged to understand the duality of being inside and outside simultaneously. Natasha is interested in stories that to her are valid because they are not just hers and because they are full of possibility. She, through art, quests to understand our edges, our deep cavities as well as our dreams and our lightness.
CV
2023 Raw Portrayals – 37D Gallery Lusaka
2022 Interplay – Studio78 Lusaka
2019 Recent Works Exhibition – solo show – 2019
2017 Scattered Belongings – 37D Gallery Lusaka
2014 Pieces of Me – Red Dot Gallery
2010 Changing Landscapes In Print – Ababa House
2023 Sugarbush Zambian Artist Exhibition
2023 Kansanshi Mining PLC
2023 Sugarbush Art Exhibition – Lightfoot Lusaka
2022 Revelations International Fine Craft & Creation Biennial, Paris
2021 Sugarbush Show, Lightfoot Lusaka
2021 Musikili Exhibition, Latitudes 15 Lusaka
2019 CLZ Exhibition, Latitudes 15 Lusaka
2019 The Opening, 37D Galley
2018 CLZ Exhibition, Zambean Coffee Co
2017 Lower Zambezi Conservation Exhibition
2016 Kuboneshango Woman’s Art Exhibition, National Arts Council
2014 Zambian Art & Design Show
2014 Metamorphosis, Upcoming Artist Exhibition, two-person show
2013 Lusaka My City, The Start Foundation
2012 Zambian Art & Design Show
2012 Art For Wildlife Exhibition – group show
2011 Sugarbush Fair Trusts
2011 David Shepherd Global Canvas Competition
2009 Musikili Art Exhibition – Lusaka – 2009
Twangale Park Gallery
Steve Guttman Private Collection
Lechwe Trust Art Gallery
2024 Agora Village – custom paintings and reproductions for 57 urban style city apartment spaces
2013-2023 Studio78 Zambia – small business owner – art framing & art printing, & creative design service
2021 -2022 Marriott Bonvoy Tribute Portfolio Hotel – art for rebrand upgrade – original custom art, reproduction prints, permanent art installations, interior design and decoration, art lighting
2022 Botanica Fine Dining – custom art wall mural and interior design
2019 Galloping Waters – commissioned artwork
2017 Latitudes Hotel Group – commissioned artwork
2015 The Cake Bar – commissioned artwork
2014 Rootz Design & Lifestyle – Boutique Hotel Art Project – painting collection
PEP Artisian Awards – judging panel at ZADS (Zambia Art & Design Show)
Big Issue Magazine Zambia – artdirection and design
David Sheppard Awards – 1st Prize mixed media category