NASTIA GLADUSHCHENKO’s works explore themes of identity, human connection, the environment and human/animal displacement. Her playful, bold and fluid shapes aim to bring wonder, contemplation and a desire for humans to connect with the natural world and with each other. Alongside small-scale works, she’s interested in creating large-scale, site-specific public art pieces in urban environments for and with local communities to allow them to access art and to experience its’ benefits in public spaces.
Living and working from the home she designed with her partner on a bush block in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales, she often takes inspiration from the forms, colours, smells and textures of the natural environment around her as a way to create inclusive works that break down cultural and language barriers to tell stories of the land.
She is deeply inspired by her Ukrainian heritage and childhood memories which centre around wild nature, farming, the dream-like city she was born in by the Black Sea, folk art and the built environment.
As well as The Cornerstore Gallery, Nastia has exhibited with Day Gallery Blackheath, The Blue Mountains Cultural Centre, Brunswick Street Gallery, Zetland Store Gallery and has small works in private collections and large-scale public commissions world-wide.
Recent Exhibitions
2025 Group exhibition ‘PLAY’ at the Blue Mountains Cultural Centre, Katoomba
2024 Mini release of works ‘A new world’, Day Gallery, Blackheath
2024 Mini release of works ‘Quiet Sky’, Day Gallery, Blackheath
2024 Group exhibition ‘Collector’s Edition’, Blue Mountains Cultural Centre, Katoomba
2023 Group exhibition ‘Ode to pink’ at the Cornerstore Gallery, Orange
2022 Group exhibition ‘Mountains Group 7’ show at Day Gallery, Blackheath
2020 Group exhibition at the Corner Store Gallery, Orange
2019 Collaborative exhibition with artist Zoe Sernack, ‘Brilliant Green’, Zetland Store Gallery
2019 Solo exhibition and artist in residence ‘Assembling Life’ Chrissie Cotter Gallery, Sydney
2018 Artist in residence at White’s Creek Cottage, Annandale
Education
2020 Digital Ecology Lab experimental art studio run by Justin Morrissey, Blue Mountains
2016 National Art School, Sydney Summer School
2009 Willem de Koning Academy, Rotterdam The Netherlands - Interior Architecture
with major in Public Art
2010 UNSW, Sydney Australia - Bachelor Interior Architecture (hons)
Commendations & Awards:
2021 Winner of the Frankie Magazine Good Stuff Awards - Art and Illustration category
Publications:
2025: House and Garden for Red Hill residence mural , Mornington peninsula
2023: House and Garden for Annandale residence mural, Sydney
2022: PIP magazine cover
2022: The Next by Studio Messa, featured creative
2021: Frankie Magazine
2020: Soft Stir Magazine
2020: Art Edit Magazine