Natasha Dein- BA (Hons) Fine Art
Ways of Being
The female body is central to Natasha Dein's work. Through touch, gesture, and gaze, she explores experiences of fear, intimacy, discomfort and desire. She is interested in the confusion and vulnerability surrounding sexuality and identity. Working across drawing, murals, and ceramics, she explores the tension between permanence and transience, contrasting the fixed nature of fired clay with the impermanence of charcoal.
Using swift lines, layering, and gestural mark making, her figures shift between personal observation and imagination. Often mirrored and fragmented, they suspend between connection and isolation, touching, holding, and grabbing, allowing intimacy to be both tender and unsettling.
Influenced by classical painting and life drawing, she reinterprets historical depictions of the nude through a queer gaze, subverting idealised femininity through repetition, distortion, and bodily gesture.
Through repeated reworking by layering, smudging, erasing, carving, and repainting, her work attempts to hold the transience of emotion, and experience.
