© Ntsako Nkuna Nkuna, born and based in Kempton Park in 2001, holds a BA in Fine Art from the University of the Witwatersrand. Her multidisciplinary practice includes screen printed 3D renders, sculptural forms, and research driven spatial studies that draw from structural elements found in domestic life. She works with the idea that everyday environments quietly shape how people think, move, and behave, and she uses her practice to explore how built spaces influence cognitive patterns and social interaction. Much of her work examines the relationship between physical structures, memory, and learned behavior.

She is interested in how familiar environments such as homes, suburban streets, and shared community spaces carry subtle instructions that guide conduct and reinforce expectations. By reimagining and reconstructing these elements, she investigates how design can serve as both a supportive framework and a limiting force. Her interest in digital worlds, gaming culture, and spatial logic further informs her approach, allowing her to think about physical and virtual environments through a shared language of movement, restriction, and possibility.

Nkuna was awarded the Wits Fine Arts NEWWORK23 Prize, an acknowledgment of her commitment to exploring how the built world shapes human experience. Her work continues to develop through expanded research on spatial organization, memory, and the social codes embedded within everyday environments, and the steady evolution of her practice.