Natasha Landers on Curating Black Art, East London & The Home as a Living Exhibition
2/5/20261 hr 10 min
For interior designer and art curator Natasha Landers, home is where the public and private worlds meet. Her Walthamstow house is a curated gallery, where Black art is not just displayed, but lives among her daily life.
Natasha grew up in a Hackney council house, sharing a bedroom with her brother in a home where space was tight, but imagination wasn’t.
From an early age, she found ways to express herself – decorating her bedroom and reworking her clothes.
She was the first in her family to go to university, leaving the noise of Eas...
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First 90 secondsNatasha Landers· Guest0:00
[gentle music] plumber came 'round to do some work, and he walked in, and he's like, "Oh, wow." He said, "Your house looks like a house in Hackney." I said, "I don't know. You just made my heart smile." [laughs] [laughs] Said, "That's a, a true compliment for me." I can't imagine a space without art. It gives me comfort. It kinda hugs me having it. So wherever I go, my art will go with me. I went into therapy- Yeah ... 'cause I was burning out a lot. Because the people-pleasing was also about making sure everybody else was okay and not that I was. My saying was, "I haven't got time for that."
Matt Gibberd· Host0:42
[gentle music] Hi, Natasha.
Natasha Landers· Guest0:49
Hi.
Matt Gibberd· Host0:50
Thanks so much for being on Homing. Um, i- if you close your eyes and picture the home that you grew up in or your childhood home, what, what do you see, first of all, and, and how does it feel?
Natasha Landers· Guest1:03
If I was to close my eyes, I would see color, lots of color. Definitely influenced by my childhood home. Green. My mum loved green as well. And what was interesting about my childhood home, unlike other Caribbean households that I knew, is that my mum sort of bucked the trend. She didn't have a good front room. Well, we lived on a, in a council house