2023

Royal Drawing School Intensive: September 23 - November 23

Moving to Margate and my mothers death has inspired me to draw.
Participating in the Royal Drawing School's three-month part-time course was a deeply transformative journey, perfectly blending tuition, tutorials, and mentoring as I embarked on developing my drawing practice. Centered around the theme of my mother's recent passing, I immersed myself in creating ghostly, intimate sketches using simple lines to depict the flowers from her wake. This exploration extended to a nostalgic series of childhood dens, illustrating sofas turned upside down, draped with her blankets, evoking memories and emotions of loss.

Open Studio:

Open Studio presentation of Timely Tale, Margate, Kent 14 October - 10 December 23.

Timely Tale piece shown in three chapters. Exhibition, Installation and Open studio

Art on a Postcard International Women’s Day Auction:

Art on a Postcard (AOAP) raises money for The Hepatitis C Trust towards its campaign to eliminate hepatitis C in the UK by the year 2030.

For its fourth International Women’s Day Auction in March, Art on a Postcard has invited seven female curators, including Beth Greenacre, Louise Fitzjohn (Liminal Gallery), Bakul Patki, Lee Sharrock, Mollie Barnes (She Curates) Sandra De Giorgi and Carrie Scott to curate a show comprising of 20/25 female artists. Each show will run as seven concurrent auctions, all raising money to support The Hepatitis C Trust’s work with women affected by the criminal justice system both in prison and local communities. 

Natasha has been invited by Curator, Carrie Scott, to create three postcards for her Auction/Show.

Click HERE to view the different auctions & register HERE to be a part of Carrie Scott’s auction, and check out her postcards!

Acquisition of Love in 90 Minutes (2015):

In January 2023, Les Arts au Mur Artothèque de Pessac, Pessac, acquired the image Love in 90 Minutes from Natasha’s 2015 series: At First Sight.

Images from this series were exhibited at Les Arts au Mur Artothèque de Pessac as part of Natasha’s 2022 solo show, Together at Last.

January 26 2023 - 22 April 2023

Natasha is showcasing her series Fairytale for Sale (2011 - 2013) at the Centre for British Photography.

The Centre for British Photography opened for the first time in London on Thursday 26 January with two lead exhibitions and five ‘in focus’ displays across three floors. 

Images of the English at home and Contemporary female self-portraiture will headline the exhibitions while photographers Heather Agyepong, Jo Spence, Andrew Bruce and Anna Fox will accompany Caruana as the five ‘in focus’ displays. 

The Centre for British Photography is a charitable organisation founded by the gallerist and philanthropist, James Hyman. The 8000 sq. ft. space will present self-generated exhibitions and those led by independent curators and organisations, as well as monographic displays. The Centre will feature photographs from 1900 to the present, work by photographers living and working in the UK today, and images taken by those who immigrated to the UK. 

2022

Acquisition of Fairytale for Sale (2011 - 2013):

In October 2022, Fairytale for Sale was acquired by The Hyman Collection, one of the world's major collections of British photography. The series will subsequently be exhibited at the Centre for British Photography, a newly established charitable organisation dedicated to British photography..

Sunday 30 October:

Photoworks Editor Diane Smyth hosts a roundtable for tips on making the next move with Natasha Caruana, George Selly, and Maryam Wahid:

What's next? Tips on establishing a professional photographic practice

Register for your FREE ticket HERE

HOOKED, Science Gallery Atlanta, USA

Hooked is a group exhibition that includes Natasha’s film, Divorce Index (2018). HOOKED explores the processes of addiction and recovery. It shows how addiction affects all of us, whether personally or through the activities of those we know. The group exhibition invites us to consider whether recovery depends on social as well as individual transformation, and places the ideas of participating artists, researchers, and visitors in dialogue with global ideas about the factors that affect our choices and their respective outcomes.

Divorce Index is a filmic response to her findings. It presents a couple in disheveled wedding clothes performing a curious dance at Hastings’ double deck promenade, Bottle Alley. Each movement is a choreographed gesture interpreting pressures which may affect a marriage, including unemployment, healthcare, libraries, access to higher education and gambling.

Solo Show:

Together at Last, Arts au mur Artothèque, Bordeaux, France

8 April - 18 June 2022

Talks:

Previous

Centre Photographie Mougins in conversation with Natasha to discuss her solo show, A Lovers Discourse, 2021 - 2022

Install shots from A Lovers Discourse Centre de la photographie de Mougins, France, October 2021 - January 2022

A selection of previous Exhibitions:

More info on previous exhibitions:

A Lover’s Discourse, Centre de La Photographie de Mougins, France, October 2021 - January 2022

The Mougins Center of Photography celebrated female photography by inviting Natasha and Jenny Rova.

Timely Tale, ASC gallery, London, 2019

Timely Tale invited viewers to step inside her mother, Penny’s, bedroom via a 360 degree VR work set against a backdrop of love, desire, health and our current age of excess. The interactive installation, Timely Tale, was exhibited in London for the first time. Presented with additional support from the Lumen Prize. This work was originally co-commissioned by HOUSE Biennial and Photoworks, and presented in partnership with the University of Brighton with additional support from the University for the Creative Arts.

Fumblelovelifekisturbingandflexy, ASC gallery, London, 2019

“In the land of Flumblelovelifekisturbingandflexy, colours flow back and forth and gifts are freely given. Mirrors are on every corner but reflections are not what you’d expect. It’s an old world, but it’s also very new. Questions of the soul are laid bare for all to see. Apples grow plentifully in its orchards and its fountains are full of pure mountain water. You are encouraged to touch and tell but be careful as snake eyes are hiding everywhere.” Darren O’Brien, curator, 2019

Home Sweet Home, 1970 — 2018 : THE BRITISH HOME, A POLITICAL HISTORY, Les Rencontres D’Arles de la Photographie, Maison des Peintres, 2019

Including works from - Keith Arnatt, Juno Calypso, Edmund Clark, Anna Fox, Ken Grant, Tom Hunter, Peter Kennard, Karen Knorr, Martin Parr, Clare Strand, Gillian Wearing

Home Sweet Home exhibited thirty artists of all generations who allow us to share the intimacy and the everyday life of Britain from the 1970s to the present day, shedding light from different angles on the social, cultural and political realities, past and present, of British society.

The Seaside: Photographed, Turner Contemporary, Margate, UK, 2019

Including works from - Jane Bown, Henri Cartier Bresson, Vanley Burke, Anna Fox, Susan Hiller, Paul Nash, Martin Parr, and Ingrid Pollard. This major exhibition examined the relationship between photographers, photography and the British seaside from the 1850s to the present. It was Turner Contemporary’s first-ever photography exhibition. Curated by Val Williams and Karen Shepherdson. With support from Arts Council England’s Strategic Touring Fund.

Probabilité 0.33 - one in three chance of staying together, Musée Nicéphore Niépce, Chalon-sur-Saône, France, 2019

The exhibition was designed as a confrontation between - everyday photography (postcards, stereoscopic views, family photos, wedding portraits or tabloid photomontages, etc.) - and the work of contemporary photographers, with series by: Delphine Balley, François Burgun, Natasha Caruana, Olivier Culmann, Anouck Durand, Amélie Landry, Romain Mader, Virginie Marnat, Jenny Rova, Thomas Sauvin [Beijing Silvermine], and Manon Weiser.

21st Century Love Affections, Imitate Modern, Mayfair, London, 2019

Imitate Modern and Natasha Caruana teamed up to curate an intimate set of talks touching on some of the most profound and technological aspects of love.

Timely Tale, Edward Street gallery, Photoworks, Brighton, UK, 2017 

HOUSE and Photoworks presented a co-commission by Natasha Caruana for the 2017 HOUSE Biennial. Timely Tale is a lens-based work set against a backdrop of love, desire and health in the age of Excess - the theme for this year’s HOUSE Biennial. These topics are discussed in the artwork through the vehicle of the artist’s mother - Penny - and the audience will see the work in the setting of a ‘medical waiting room’.

Married Man, ICP Museum (project space), New York, 2016

Natasha spent 18 months going on 80 dates, never really being able to take more than a couple of images at a time to ensure her married dinner date did not get suspicious. The imagery is created using a disposable camera. This use of the snapshot connotes a sense of something being recorded that shouldn't be seen, hurried moments of an unfinished meal, an empty seat or an obvious gesture of anticipation.

At First Sight, Salle Henri Comte, Les Rencontres D’Arles, Arles, France, 2015

At First Sight is a photographic series of thirty-three images exhibited in varying formats and scales. The project includes analogue photographs of portraits, landscapes, and staged experiments alongside historical reprints of educational scientific drawings. The work continues to develop Natasha’s research around love, betrayal, and fantasy through the investigation of the phenomenon of love at first sight.

Workshops:

Previous

More info on previous workshops:

The_Interval, Work Show Grow, 2020

A month of virtual events that championed creativity, information and motivation to the work-show-grow community and beyond. Program curated Natasha Caruana and produced by Simon Sweetman

Write Workshops, Work Show Grow, 2019 (October - December)

A series of small-scale winter workshops, which were held in the intimate setting of NC Studio.

The Personal as Political, International Summer School of Photography, Latvia, 2019

Where is the border between the personal and the political? When does the personal stop being just personal and start reflecting structural flaws/forms of oppression in society?

In this workshop, Natasha, along with the selected participants explored the ways we can effect change from documenting moments of our everyday life, relationships, and routines. How we can utilize personal pain, anger, and frustration in order to see our own situation as a reflection of wider political realities, reflect on it objectively and use our work to engage others.

Go for Gold. How to pitch yourself and your work, Circulation(s) Festival Paris, 2019

Getting your shit together. How to pitch yourself. How to edit a portfolio. How to talk to people. How to write to people. No messing. Straight talking photographic professional practice. This workshop was part of an intense weekend of professional practice. Natasha worked with participants over the two days to create the best presentation for parctitioners existing work. Participants finished with a coherent portfolio, project text, and a set of creative career goals for the next two years.