XYZ Artist in residence
Natasha Brown

Natasha Brown is a UK-based South African artist invested in both making and teaching.She holds a BA in Fine Art from the University of the Witwatersrand (Johannesburg, South Africa, 2015-2018) and an MA in Fine Art from Central Saint Martins (2020-2022).
She pays attention to the affective nature of teaching spaces and is dedicated to research into alternative and accessible pedagogies, with a specific interest in workshops involving themes of sincerity and practical illusion. Her personal painting practice informs her work as a foundation and
adult education tutor.
She is one half of the public-practice duo “Wiggle Room”.
“My practice is concerned with the revealing of mechanics behind both illusion and painting. Engaged in practical tricks, my painting installations aim to touch on the contemporary notion of post-truth and what it means to engage in an illusion already revealed or obvious.
These paintings are unaware that they are paintings, they are attempting to support and protect the wound in the middle, which is unaware that it hurts.”


