Natasha Dunk
(She/They)
Natasha Dunk (she/they) is a Glasgow based artist whose practice centres on the consideration of psychotherapeutic practices, drawing inspiration from a spiritual ethos that prioritises the subconscious, natural landscapes, the human body and creating as the principal manner of expression. Working across domestic craft techniques, film and installation, her work engages with the concept of home, somatic memory, subconscious mapping and transitional connections to both self and place.
Her practice centres on a dialogue with the past and the intersection of memory, personal history and landscape, examining how both the human body and nature function as vessels, holding the traces of all they have encountered. The use of colour is integral to her process, where palettes derived from reality, dreams and meditative states blur together, creating a reflection of the interconnectivity of non-linear time and various layers of consciousness. In this space she allows many realities to coincide and coexist.
Natasha adopts a playful approach within her practice, exploring these themes through vivid, faux-naive visual elements and various mediums including textiles, video, writing, sculpture, drawing and sound, frequently combining these to create immersive installation works that invite viewers into a world of layered narratives.
Emptying the Pockets
This body of work emerged as an extension of a previous project entitled ‘Tasty Soup’ that took the concepts of somatic memory and the parallels between both how a body and land contain memories to create a film. The resulting installation, ‘Emptying the Pockets’ looks at how colour, sound and texture can convey the emotional resonance of remembering in a physical, spatial way.
Tasty Soup
This work was influenced by a month long residency at Arteles Creative Centre in Finland. The 2025 residency involved going without a phone or internet for the duration of the stay as well as meditation and wellness routines that ultimately fed my practice, and led me to create from a place of intuition and connection to both my surroundings and self.
‘Tasty Soup’ began as several passages of stream of consciousness writing that expanded into multiple art forms and avenues of exploration. These culminated in this film work that sought to unlock the subconscious through movement and using the body as the tool with which to communicate that which cannot be communicated through language.
Huge thanks to Arteles for the space and opportunity to create and to both Zach Siegel and Leyla Josephine for helping me, not only with the practicalities of filmmaking, but in nurturing joy and playfulness throughout this project. This film genuinely wouldn’t be what it is without you!
I am not from here, but nor are you…
As soon as we were up on our feet
We started to migrate across the savanna
Following the herd of bison,
Beyond the horizon,
To new, distant lands.
Children on our backs, expectant,
Eyes alert, all ears,
Sniffing that unsettling landscape, new and unknown.
We are a traveling species,
We have no belongings, only luggage.
We go with the pollen in the wind,
We are alive because we are in motion.
We are never still, we are nomadic.
We are parents, children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren
of immigrants.
What I dream is more mine than what I can touch.
I am not from here, but nor are you . . .
– Jorge Drexler, Movimiento (Movement), 2017 –
