Natasha Taheem

Working across drawing and printmaking, Natasha Taheem weaves together themes of desire, expectation and social structures. Her visual world is playful and warm, layered with resistance, frustration and joy. Humour carries what cannot always be spoken, allowing for complexity to be held with honest emotion.

Recent work combines contemporary printmaking practice, informed by the process of Indian wood block printing and large-scale graphic drawings. These bold works explore patriarchal structures, domestic and public life and queer expressions. Drawing functions as a space for reflection and projection: a way to process lived experience while rehearsing possibilities.

Shaped by her experience as a British Punjabi woman who has grown up in Birmingham, Taheem’s practice moves between craft, inherited knowledge, and self-definition. It is a celebration of brown queer joy, while remaining attentive to the tensions, humour, and anger that shape it.

Taheem is currently working from her studio in Birmingham as part of an artist residency with Grand Union and Bruntwood Sci-Tech. Her commissioned work has been exhibited at Christie’s London and shown at The New Walsall Art Gallery as part of the Grand National exhibition by Outside In. She holds a BA(hons) in Graphic Design from Camberwell College of Arts and was awarded Arts Council England’s Develop Your Creative Practice Fund in 2025 to research Indian woodblock printing and natural dye practices in Bagru, Rajasthan. She is the founder of Queer Mehndi Nights, a Birmingham-based gathering for the South Asian LGBTQ* community.

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