Natasha Muluswela

Natasha Muluswela (b. 1995, Zimbabwe) is a visual artist whose practice is rooted in drawing and painting, with a focus on contemporary figuration that explores themes of identity, representation, and social justice. Her work engages critically with non-canonical approaches to art, drawing on frameworks of decolonisation, intersectionality, and marginalisation. Informed by her perspective as an African woman in the United Kingdom.

Working primarily through drawing and painting on paper, she begins each piece by envisioning and re-editing the outcome, often returning to sketches and building through repetitive, meditative motions with pencils, dry pigment, and graphite powder. Her process is both intuitive and intentional—merging the ancestral with the contemporary to weave diasporic stories into visual form. Her work seeks to render the invisible visible, inviting viewers to critically engage with the cultural and political dimensions of identity.
Muluswela articulates her broader vision as a “decolonisation of the conscious collective within the contemporary art frame.”