Natasha Faye Jensen

Natasha Faye Jensen is a dual Canadian and United Kingdom interdisciplinary artist from Moh’kins’tsis (Calgary), located in Treaty 7 territory in Southern Alberta, Canada. Working across sculpture, collage, photography, and film, her research-driven practice examines the intersections of ecology, materiality, and colonial history, with a particular focus on cultivated landscapes as contested sites of power.

She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Alberta University of the Arts (formerly the Alberta College of Art and Design) in 2013 and completed a Master of Arts in Contemporary Art Practice at the Edinburgh College of Art in 2020. Her work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions, screenings, and festivals across Canada, the United States, Finland, and the United Kingdom.

Jensen’s practice has been supported through grants from Calgary Arts Development, the Alberta Foundation for the Arts, and Creative Scotland. She is the recipient of several awards, including the RSA Barns-Graham Travel Award (2020), the RBC Emerging Artist Award from the Mayor’s Lunch for Arts Champion and Visual Artist and Craft Maker Award from Creative Scotland.

Artist Statement:

The environment enters my practice not as scenery, but as evidence. I approach gardens and cultivated landscapes as living archives sites where ideology settles into soil, where plant selection reveals systems of power, and where beauty often masks histories of extraction and control. By cutting, burning, and reassembling images, or by working with organic and geological materials, I try to mirror the ways land itself has been divided, classified, and reshaped. For me, environmental work is not only about preservation; it is about revealing the layered histories embedded in place and asking how we might move toward forms of care that acknowledge both damage and responsibility.