Born in 1978 in Mutare, Zimbabwe, Natasha lives and works in Lusaka, Zambia. Having moved to Zambia at the age of eight—the country of her parents’ birth—her practice is shaped by layered geographies and inherited landscapes. Questions of belonging, memory, and surface quietly underpin her work.
Originally trained in Illustration at The Arts Institute at Bournemouth (First Class Honours, 2005), Natasha’s practice evolved beyond image-making into a materially driven exploration of process. Though academically grounded in illustration, her work maintains a strong fine art sensibility, where material investigation and physical engagement with surface take precedence over narrative clarity.
Her practice moves across painting, collage, assemblage, installation, and print. Through drawing, gestural and repetitive mark-making, fragments of text, experimental photography, and tactile layering, she constructs surfaces that function as sites of excavation. Layers are applied, obscured, sanded back, and reworked — suggesting histories embedded in place. Material becomes both metaphor and memory.
Working within a Southern African context, Natasha’s layered compositions can be read as quiet negotiations with postcolonial geography: territories marked, rewritten, and reimagined. Surface operates as a landscape — scarred, repaired, accumulated — reflecting the complexities of cultural inheritance and spatial belonging.
Her mark-making and figurative line carries an intimate, bodily presence. Repetition, rhythm, and subtle gesture introduce a feminine sensibility that resists monumentality, instead privileging touch, tactility, and slow looking. The work unfolds gradually, revealing traces rather than declarations.
Based in Lusaka since 2007, Natasha has presented five solo exhibitions in Zambia and exhibited internationally in France, Switzerland and South Africa. In 2022, she completed extensive commissioned projects for Marriott Bonvoy. After running a professional art framing studio for a decade alongside her practice, she now works full-time from her Lusaka studio, focusing on expanding the conceptual and material scale of her work.
Her practice continues to explore how surface can hold memory — how material can speak where language falls short.
EDUCATION
2002-2005 The Arts Institute At Bournemouth UK – BA HONS Degree, Illustration 1st class award
2001 The Arts Institute At Bournemouth, UK - Foundation diploma
ART FAIRS & BIENNIALS
2025 FNB Art Joburg, Johannesburg, South Africa
2025 Africa Basel, Basel, Switzerland
2022 Revelations International Fine Craft & Creation Biennial, Paris, France
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 Finding A Softness – The Space, Lusaka
2023 Raw Portrayals – 37D Gallery, Lusaka
2022 Interplay – Studio78, Lusaka
2019 Layers On Time – Studio78, Lusaka
2017 Scattered Belongings – 37D Gallery, Lusaka
2014 Pieces of Me – Red Dot Gallery, Lusaka
2010 Changing Landscapes In Print – Ababa House, Lusaka
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 On Behalf Of….. Latitudes Center For The Arts – Johannesburg
2025 Fallen & Found, The Space, Lusaka
2025 Spring Show - WINZAVOD Center for Contemporary Art – Moscow
2024 Finalist Exhibition - AWAA Her Voice Gallery – Lusaka
2023 Sugarbush Zambian Artist Exhibition - Lusaka
2023 Kansanshi Mining PLC – Solwezi
2023 Sugarbush Art Exhibition – Lightfoot Lusaka
2021 Sugarbush Show, Lightfoot Lusaka
2021 Musikili Exhibition, Latitudes 15
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 - 37D Gallery
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
PROJECTS
2024 Agora Village – apartment spaces - Limited edition archival prints
2013-2023 Studio78 Zambia - Founder - art framing & large format art printing
2021 -2022 Marriott Bonvoy Tribute Portfolio Hotel – original art, installation art, art lighting, art prints
2022 Botanica - custom art wall mural & interior design
2019 Galloping Waters – Botique style house boat - commissioned artwork
2017 Latitude Hotel Group – (Zambia & Uganda) commissioned artwork
2015 The Cake Bar – commissioned bespoke art lighting
2014 Rootz Design & Lifestyle – Boutique Hotel – 16 large format painting collection
AWARDS
AWAA The African Artist Women In Art Award, Her Voice Gallery
INSP (International Street Papers Awards, Norway) – Best Cover, Big Issue Zambia
David Sheppard Award – 1st Prize mixed media category