Natalia Millman

Natalia Millman is a British artist of Ukrainian origin whose practice spans painting, installation, sculpture, photography, and video. Her work explores the philosophy of loss, ageing, memory, and the human–nature connection, often reflecting on resilience and the energy of grieving. Through processes of scraping, layering, burning, and mending, Millman uses organic and found materials as metaphors for the human condition.

Between 2020 and 2022, she was a member of Studio Fridays, a mentoring platform for emerging artists. She now works from her Hertfordshire studio, where she also engages in community projects. From 2023 to 2025, she ran monthly creative art workshops for Dementia Club, offering supportive, hands-on activities for people living with dementia. Since 2021, she has also served as Ambassador for Arts4Dementia.

Her solo exhibition VANISHING POINT (Crypt Gallery, London, 2021) grew out of personal loss and explored the ageing mind and body alongside the stigma of dementia. She regularly exhibits in both solo and group exhibitions, often in contexts that raise awareness around dementia and grief, and contributes to interviews and publications on creativity and wellbeing.

Millman is recently completed her major community project, LETTERS TO FOREVER, supported by Arts Council England. Held in St Albans in August 2025, this three-year project responds to over 200 letters of grief collected by the artist, expressed through drawing, video, sound, scent and performance. The exhibition was accompanied by holistic creative workshops exploring grief, loss, and healing. She is currently embarking on a new personal project, completing her father’s unfinished sketches and drawings as a way of co-creating and building continuous bonds with him.