Body of work

NATASHA WRIGHT

As Dior’s provocative SS18 statement T-shirts, posing the question “Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?”, were hanging in its flagship Manhattan store, a New Zealand artist in New York was putting her own work on the line on the Lower East Side. Natasha Wright’s first solo show on graduating art school, the evocative Les Biches, was held at a small event space to critical acclaim.

A year on, Natasha is building on her portfolio of strong, spirited women. Preferring to work with oil paint on life-sized stretched canvas, she says her figures become physical beings – so