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Natasha Botelho Cook

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Studio @setsetsetsetsetset vauxhall
Co-founder @et_al.collective
London / Bahia

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Bom Diaa <3

I made this work shortly after my last visit to Brasil. Lots of writing hidden in the work as per usual.

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To Long for Land
A tempest casts its forceful rain over miles
I am sand
I could blow away and sweep over you at any minute and I wouldn’t even really be there
2026
Oil, ink, indigo, salt, charcoal, chalk, and pastel on salvaged sailcloth, rope and tarred twine. taken in London, United Kingdom by @natashaxcook

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9 days ago

To Long for Land
A tempest casts its forceful rain over miles
I am sand
I could blow away and sweep over you at any minute and I wouldn’t even really be there

2026
Oil, ink, indigo, salt, charcoal, chalk, and pastel on salvaged sailcloth. Aluminum swallow.
155 x 168 cm taken in London, United Kingdom by @natashaxcook

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12 days ago

Special thank you to @sensaflare and @hyphastudios for putting on such a fantastic show at Hypha HQ “Yesterday a was November 18, Tomorrow Will Be Too”, and for including this work. It was an honor to be included and show alongside all of the incredibly talented artists they brought together. <3

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Sail III: Deslumbrado. The State of Being Momentarily Blinded or Overwhelmed by a Sudden Light.
2026
145 x 427 cm
Oil, ink, indigo, salt, charcoal, chalk, and pastel on salvaged sailcloth, rope and tarred twine. by @natashaxcook

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14 days ago

Grateful for the opportunity to have shown this work at my recent grad show, where I spoke to lots of lovely people. A big thank you to all who came and the team who helped me install, and were so generous with their time and feedback. This work is part of an ongoing series I am developing that is a materials based exploration of adjustment, resistance, precarity, accumulation, distance, impossibility, loneliness and ultimately love…

Titled:

Sail III: Deslumbrado. The State of Being Momentarily Blinded or Overwhelmed by a Sudden Light.

Oil, ink, indigo, salt, charcoal, chalk, and pastel on salvaged sailcloth, rope and tarred twine. Mooring cleat, piston hanks, wooden wedges, and aluminum.

Dimensions variable.

As part of my installation “The Failure of Matter” which was comprised of four 8 sculptural works, four sails and four metal swallows and other sculptural forms. More to follow. by @natashaxcook

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3 months ago

Folús
17th - 19th September 2026
Curated by Lilymay Healy and Tara Dowling
Satellite Projects & Studios,
Father Griffin Road,
Galway, H91 Y628

Join us on Wednesday 16th September 6pm - 8pm for the opening night

Opening Hours:
Thursday 17th September 10am - 6pm
Culture Night Friday 18th September from 6pm
Saturday 19th September 10am - 6pm

~Culture Night~
7pm - 8pm
Register for free at the link in bio for a special evening of film screenings and readings from the artists and writers

The rain dissolves deep fissures into limestone, islands continually recede into mist but in the wake of disappearance, something hums from the void.
Traces signal existence - a shadow of something - but that which casts it is not there.

Folús brings together 12 artists and writers, both London-based and Ireland-based, from 17th September to the 19th September 2026 at Satellite Projects & Studios in Galway. Spanning sculpture, painting, moving image, textile, found objects and writing, we wish to consider the lines of presence within absence and absence within presence. In these gaps, invisible pasts remain perceptible through their traces and a potential for fabulation emerges. We consider the possibility that these voids are latent spaces, generative of fictions and mythologies which manifest alternative futures.

Artists:
Natasha Botelho Cook @natashaxcook
Kate Butler @kate.butler2
Kitty Chesher @kitty__chesher
Ciara Corscadden Hennessy @ciara__ch
Aoife Ní Dhuinn @aoifeni.dhuinn
Tara Dowling @_tara_dowling_
Síofra Egan @siofraeganart
Blaise Gilburd @gilburdblaise
Lilymay Healy @lilymayhealy
Oli James @olijames39
Ciara King @ciarakingg
Jack Ó Meara @jack.o.meara

Special thanks to @satellite_projects__ @lisareganpr taken in Galway's Westend by @natashaxcook

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2 months ago

It was an honor to be included in the Folús exhibition in Galway, Ireland @satellite_projects__ which came together remarkably with expert curation by @lilymayhealy and @_tara_dowling_ <3

Here is an install shot which features works by several of the fantastic artists who participated in the show and one of my pieces:

To Long for Land
A tempest casts its forceful rain over miles
I am sand
I could blow away and sweep over you at any minute and I wouldn’t even really be there
2026
Oil, ink, indigo, salt, charcoal, chalk, and pastel on salvaged sailcloth, rope and tarred twine.
155 x 168 cm

Photo credit @lilymayhealy taken in Galway, Ireland by @natashaxcook

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12 days ago

Really looking forward to showing in this upcoming exhibition along with many exciting artists so please do come along if you are around in London :))

Curated by Sensaflare @sensaflare
Presented by Hypha Studios @hyphastudios
Kindly supported by British Land @britishlandplc

Exhibition Title: Yesterday Was November 18, Tomorrow Will Be Too
Exhibition dates: 11 September–3 October 2026
Venue: Hypha HQ, Unit 3, Euston Tower, 286 Euston Road, NW1 3DP
Private View: 10 September 2026, 18:00 - 21:00pm by @natashaxcook

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2 months ago

The Failure of Matter

Sail I: Cerração. A Dense, Marine Fog.
178 x 355 cm

Sail II: Swallows, Breakwater.
110 x 215 cm

Sail III: Deslumbrado. The State of Being Momentarily Blinded or Overwhelmed by a Sudden Light.
2026
145 x 427 cm

Sail IV: Saudade, Anseio. Past Life and Future.
221 x 166 cm

Oil, ink, indigo, salt, charcoal, chalk, and pastel on salvaged sailcloth, rope and tarred twine. Mooring cleat, piston hanks, wooden wedges, and aluminum.

Swallows I, II, III and IV in plasma cut aluminum.

Incredible floor works by @anouk_baumgartner taken in London, United Kingdom by @natashaxcook

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3 months ago

‘YESTERDAY WAS NOVEMBER 18, TOMORROW WILL BE TOO’

🥁Natasha Botelho Cook @natashaxcook

🎟️ PV: Thursday, 10th September, 6 – 9 PM
📍 Hypha HQ, Unit 3, Euston Tower, 286 Euston Road, NW1 3DP

🎫RSVP links in bio 🔗

Natasha Botelho Cook @natashaxcook

Cerração, 2026
Oil, ink, indigo, salt, charcoal, chalk, and pastel on salvaged sailcloth, rope and tarred twine. Mooring cleat, piston hanks, wooden wedges
178 × 355 cm

Deslumbrado, 2026
Oil, ink, indigo, salt, charcoal, chalk, and pastel on salvaged sailcloth, rope and tarred twine. Mooring cleat, piston hanks
145 × 427 cm

Saudade, Anseio, 2026
Oil, ink, indigo, salt, charcoal, chalk, and pastel on salvaged sailcloth, rope and tarred twine. Mooring cleat, piston hanks
145 × 427 cm

The failure of matter is loneliness itself. Together, salvaged sails, already marked by salt, pressure, rupture and repair, carrying fragments of poems that move between English and Portuguese, meteorological fact and emotional condition. Suspended as a weather system, the sails and migrating swallows hold fragility and resilience together, and a body still reaching across irreversible distance and time… as the poem ends in the present tense: I am still reaching.

Natasha Botelho Cook is a Brazilian American artist living and working in London. She has a relationship with distance, trying to claim it as a place of belonging: the in-between, the non-nation. Using materials with their own histories, she treats oceanic forces as methodology, testing erosion, staining, tension and drift. She uses myth and inherited stories from the places she has lived as sources of form and meaning, approaching what she does not fully understand: the ocean, the horizon, love and distance.

🗓 Open: 11th September – 3rd October
Monday – Saturday 11 – 6pm

Curated by Rusha Cheng & Zhuoran Fu @sensaflare
Contact: info@sensaflare.com

Presented by Hypha Studios @hyphastudios

#HyphaStudios #LondonArt #ContemporaryArt #ArtExhibition #londonexhibition

Drawing on Solvej Balle’s On the Calculation of Volume, the exhibition imagines the gallery as a single day repeated without ever becoming identical. Nineteen artists explore repetition through recurring gest taken in Euston Tower by @natashaxcook

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a month ago

Tomorrow is the last day of the postgrad show at Chelsea College of Art 👀. Come by from 10-4 :)). I won’t be showing this work as it was from a lil while back, but I willll be showing some similar (better?) works alongside some incredible sculptures by @anouk_baumgartner in room CG05.

Pictured:

“Still Looking Across the Same Impossible Thing”
2026
Ink, oil, salt, chalk and charcoal on salvaged sail and rope.

Dimensions variable. taken in London, United Kingdom by @natashaxcook

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3 months ago

Instillation shot of
‘Everything Here is Doing What it Has to Do to Remain Upright’
2026
Ink, indigo, oil and salt on printed fabric, silk, salvaged sail, net, rope, steel armature, and rubber hose.

An ongoing test of adaptation, erosion, precarity, resistance and labor. taken in London, United Kingdom by @natashaxcook

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7 months ago

Wishing for impossibilities. by @natashaxcook

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7 months ago