Natasha Evans

Natasha (b. 1978) in Zimbabwe in 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 works as a full time artist from her home studio in Lusaka, Zambia. Natasha has taken part in multiple group exhibitions and last year November she showed a collection of work in her fifth solo exhibition. Internationally Natasha travelled to Paris to exhibit a calabash vessel body of work, representing Zambia.

Natasha prepares new work for an upcoming show at the end of this year. Natasha creates contemporary mixed media works that see fluid shifts and overlaps in abstraction and figuration. Her work is realized on traditional media using paper and canvas and has editions in print. Her use of less traditional media includes the organic vessel the calabash, cement, earth, textile and found materials that are sculptural in nature. She makes use of tangible and non- tangible elements like, transferred photographic image, light, shadow, sculpted paper, automatic drawing, building, stacking, repetition, concealing, revealing and mark making. Natasha extracts resources from the physical (earth), cultural and social environments she (we) connect to in both the past and present.

She goes deeper by often fragmenting texts and uses metaphor and symbolism to tell stories that she finds being Africa. Exploring selfhood, womanhood, dark and light, strength and fragility, presence and absence. In her work, Natasha quests to understand our edges, our deep cavities as well as our dreams and our lightness; the duality of being inside and outside simultaneously.