About Nasha Cash

Hi! I’m Nasha Cash, co-director of HappeningInMCR, member of the art collective The Order of the Fool, artist and illustrator from Sheffield, based in Manchester.

My work is inspired by dreams, the private day to day and spiritualism which I express using anthropomorphic animals as actors in scenes that overflow with line, texture and pattern. I’m currently working on a series of drawings exploring subconscious inspiration where I allow dreams, meditation and scrying to guide my creations.

I work with a variety of materials including acrylic markers and paper, creating images which I sometimes digitally colour using open source software. I frequently employ use of tessellating patterns which I create by hand-cutting paper stencils, as seen in this piece below.

In my paintings I like to maintain a certain amount of rawness, preserving the essence of the materials that I’m working with and allowing the paints natural flow to shape the painting.

Achievements

My work and projects I have been involved in, have been featured in articles from The Guardian, Manchester Finest, Now Then, The Creative Occupation and the Mancunion.

I have been a guest speaker for Fuse Manchester and Manchester Girl Network and I’ve exhibited across the UK in Saan1, Next Door Gallery, Didsbury Parsonage, Camden Open Air Gallery and numerous non-traditional gallery spaces.

I’m also a recipient of the cocoa arts award for a community based interactive art project and have participated in Art Battle MCR.