Nat Kafka is a visual artist based in the Northern Rivers on Bundjalung Country. Working across painting and sculpture, she uses process as a way of testing how form, surface and memory can shift over time.

Kafka began her formal studies at Byron School of Art in 2021 with a dedicated year in ceramics, before moving through the school’s visual arts program and completing Visual Arts Research and Portfolio in 2024. She is currently undertaking Alumni Research and Exhibition Practice.

Her paintings are built through repeated acts of layering, sanding and painting. Working with acrylic paint mixed with feldspar potash, a combination developed through experimentation, Kafka creates smooth surfaces where marks are partially buried, held beneath the final image. Her sculptural and object-based works extend this interest in surface and support through clay, casting and formed objects.

In 2024, Kafka was awarded the Tweed Regional Gallery - Byron School of Art Graduate Award, resulting in her first solo exhibition, Between Appearance, at Tweed Regional Gallery from November 2025 to February 2026. She was also a finalist in the Wollumbin Art Award in 2024 and 2026.