latiya nanton

Since graduating in Fine Art less than five years ago, Latiya Nanton has now begun to look back on works made to date, examining how to incorporate these negotiations into the next stages of her life.

She is a skillful, tenacious artist  who deconstructs images and presents new forms using different surfaces and processes.

In her work, she explores notions of herself and identity, and how this might be inherited, re-framed and re-imagined. Her creative practice enables an understanding of where she finds herself in the world, without any pre-conceived bias. 

She embraces a fluid making practice which is almost what some people might think of as play, but is in fact highly controlled and considered. She enjoys the way that different paints, and different surfaces, collide. Each piece is unique, yet all her works relate to the series or scheme of investigation that surrounds them.

She employs a number of different technical approaches to applying colour, her work lending itself to an almost industrial mode of production.

Throughout the Covid 19 pandemic, Nanton began to produce a series of paintings based on deconstructed flag forms from each country of the world, each stripped of their political and historical connotations and represented as new compositions.

‘I decided to change the flags, to take away these given politics and create a fusion where purely beautiful forms and powerful colours were revealed.’

Whilst compiling the series, the work became heavily influenced by people in her wider community, their struggles with self-identification and inclusivity.

These 200 works will be available from Fillingham and Company in 2025. Follow us on Instagram for news and updates.