About

Biography: Natasha Jensen is an interdisciplinary artist from Moh’kins’tsis/Calgary, Treaty 7 territory in the Southern Alberta region, Canada. Jensen completed her BFA at Alberta University of the Arts (formerly Alberta College of Art and Design) in 2013 and currently resides in Edinburgh, Scotland while they complete a MA in Contemporary Art Practice at the Edinburgh College of Art. Natasha has exhibited in online exhibition, galleries and festivals in Canada and the UK.

Artist Statement: In my current research and studio practice, I am examining how the garden is an active site of power. By examining them through historical archives and the history of classification, we are able to unearth the colonial and ecological issues found within, to draw attention to an ideological struggle that is taking place in these seemingly passive spaces. The garden is both a natural and unnatural space when we consider the amount of human intervention and cultivation that takes place in the garden. I am working through these ideas by exploring a variety of mediums, such as collage, photography and drawing, all of which explore these themes in their own unique way. For example, cutting and collaging is an act of violence that removes the subject from its context and is an implied trauma on the paper that is irreversible. This exploration will reveal these garden spaces for more than their aesthetic beauty, examining their history as a catalyst to talk about social and political change.