Natasha Ratuva
Photographer, digital artist and poet.
Fale-ship Home Residency 2020Follow as Natasha shares her home workspace, creative process and reflects on her Fale-ship experience.
Meet Natasha Ratuva
Meet Natasha Ratuva Born and raised in Suva, Fiji. Natasha was also raised in Aotearoa, Australia, the United States and the United Kingdom. Her parents, who are both Fijian intellectuals, activists, philosophers, academics and art lovers, combined contemporary and traditional ideas in their approach to raising Natasha and her brother.
Natasha’s upbringing heavily influenced the lens with which she perceived creativity. The art that she creates today is largely inspired by being raised as an Indigenous Fijian woman in a post colonial society. She loves to celebrate the oneness of Indigenous peoples by interrogating the geo-political borders that colonialism has structured around us.
Natasha Ratuva, Mana Moana, 2020
“Our resilience is impenetrable because our joys and struggles are part of a bigger circle of stories that keep us forever bound and woven into Moana.”
Natasha’s creative expression is also stirred by her search for identity which she wishes to pass down to future generations. Above everything she aims to centre her Moana family, connections to land, ocean, lineages and how they have overcome, survived and continue to prosper.
Natasha Ratuva Q&A with Benji Timu
Natasha Ratuva shares about her creative process, her experience with the Tautai Fale-ship and more.
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