'Art breathes life and joy into my soul. "
Natasha Kirby is a recent graduate from Adelaide Central School of Art whose work spans a multidisciplinary field of performance art, mixed media, and sculpture.
As an emerging contemporary regional artist and creative facilitator Kirby is passionate about storytelling, transformation, and everyday life through a distinctly creative lens. Using the language of motherhood, metaphor, subversion and absurdity within her work she is inspired by resilience, human experience and the beauty found in growth and change, drawing on themes of renewal, fragmentation, and lived experience, Kirby creates emotionally charged works that examine the complexities of contempory life and conection.
Alongside her practice, she has worked extensively in community support and arts education, bringing creativity and connection into regional communities through workshops and collaborative projects.
Bio
Education
Diploma Visual Arts, Adelaide Central School of Art, 2025
Diploma Production and Technical Theatre, Telford College, Edinburgh , 2000
Cert 4 Visual Art, Tafe SA, 1997
Work
Peterborough Arts Collective, facilitator, workshop tutor, artist liaison, 2026
Secretary Peterbrough Art & Cultural Prize, assistant co-ordinator. 2026
Committee member, Peterborough Regional Art Prize 2025 (installation, curation, and judging)
Trainee Tour Guide, Art Gallery South Australia, 2024
Student Exhibition Curator, Adelaide Central School of Art 2022-24
Gallery assistant, Post Office Projects & Feltspace Gallery, Adelaide, 2024
Sala volunteer, 2023-24
Artist in Residence, Exhibition Co-ordinator, Red Poles Gallery, 2022
Assistant Curator Coorong Gallery 2023
Gallery Assistant, Station Masters and Coorong Gallery, S.A, 2017-2022
Installation / Sculpture
Curios No.'s 1-6
Installation / Sculpture. This work is a nod to historical curio cabinets. The work explores the concept of human influence on nature whilst touching upon the metaphor of nuture.
Little Things
Seeds hold quiet power. Small and often overlooked, they carry within them the potential for transformation, resilience, and renewal. In this work, seeds become a metaphor for life itself - representing the unseen beginnings from which growth emerges, the cycles of change we move through, and the constant possibility of becoming something new.
Performance art
Performance Art
Fluxus Inspired
Gallery
Mixed media drawings/paintings
Capturing colour, movement, tone & emotion.
Watercolour
A series of works in watercolour and mixed media
Theatre
Theatre
I have worked extensively from 1999-present within the performative sphere from contemporary, burlesque, traditional theatre as a performer, producer, artistic director, costumer, body painter, during Edinburgh, Adelaide Fringe and Feast Festival
I have performed in London's West End, Holyrood Amateur Theatrical Society, Edinburgh, O2 Academy, Glasgow, Glastonbury Music Festival, Belladrum Festival, T in the Park, Adelaide Festival Theatre, Holden Street Theatre S.A, Nexus Arts S.A to name a few.
I have produced several rural cabaret shows since 2011 and theatre shows in Adelaide.
Costumes, Misce en Scene
Stage & Screen costumes & character creations I have created and made.
