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.”

Her recent accolades include obtaining her Master's degree at the Royal College of Art 2025. Her participation in the Nosakhari Able-Graphy exhibition (2024), and her inclusion in the Top Boy exhibition at Somerset House (2023), with her work acquired by the National Portrait Gallery. Her public sculpture for The World Reimagined is now part of the permanent art trail collection at the University of Reading. She has exhibited with Gucci Circolo as part of Home Presents Collective Process. Notable awards include the Acme Alternative Pathway Award (2022), The Other Art Fair: New Futures winner (2023), and the Young Masters Emerging Woman Artist Award (2023).