Natasha Thembiso Ruwona is a Scottish-Zimbabwean artist-writer, researcher and community events producer based in London. Her work is rooted in placemaking and collaboration, focusing on nurturing spaces where people can connect and gather.
Recent projects as an artist include a film commission for Middlesbrough Arts Week 2024 titled Fugitive Sound Studies, initially developed as part of the FLAMIN Fellowship 2023-2024. She was also a finalist for the Michael O’Pray Moving-Image Writing Prize in 2023, with her writing published in Art Monthly. In addition, Natasha was commissioned to create a film for Resisting Toxic Climates: Gender, Colonialism, and Environment, a conference hosted by the British Academy and the University of Edinburgh.
Natasha is currently supporting/holding projects as:
Syllabus Coordinator at Wysing Arts Centre
Events Producer and Communications Lead for Kinfolk Network
Events Producing for Decolonising Economics