Natasha Cantwell is a New Zealand artist whose work openly embraces awkwardness and the absurdity of human behaviour. Her practice explores the tension between the visible and the unseen, and the possibility of rebuilding a connection to the natural world from a position of fractured understanding. She draws from the uneasiness of performance art and b-grade horror cinema.

Working across photography and 16mm experimental film, her work has been exhibited worldwide, including at Experiments In Cinema (US), the European Media Art Festival, and Stuttgart Filmwinter Festival For Expanded Media (both in Germany). In 2025 she undertook a residency at Arteles Creative Center in Finland, and is a current finalist in the FluxusMuseum Prize for Experimental Video 2026 (Greece).

Alongside her art career she has shot for a wide range of publications, specialising in fashion, portraiture, still life and environments. Magazines include Frankie, Elle UK, Ladygunn, No, Pavement, Dumbo Feather, Lunch Lady and Smith Journal. Natasha is based in Melbourne, living and working on Bunurong and Wurundjeri Country.

“Her work is buoyant and sinister, poppy and somber, delightful and disconcerting to watch. She also has an uncanny knack for inviting the viewer with warm, saturated colors and natural light, then throwing them off with severed chicken feet dancing in-sync with a snappy tune. Natasha Cantwell is one of the hard-working, innovative, artist-of-all-trades that the New Zealand milieu, every so often, will produce. Refreshing.” - Rosie Rowe,Wellington Underground Film Festival.

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