A painting by Nahem
Shoa (DY 2004) has been acquired by The Laing Art Gallery,
Newcastle. The portrait, titled Head of Desiree (2001),
was painted over 8 months and around 30 three hour sitting were involved.
Nahem is also in
a group show called Into The
Wild Abyss at The Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery, Exeter, showing alongside
artists Gordon Cheung and Rui Matsunaga. The exibition opens on the 8th of
june and finishes on 3rd sept.
Into The Wild Abyss / Three artists explore various
interpretations of a universal spiritual craving for nature in an era of
accelerated technological existence; the inner life within a post 9-11
world full of ecological, economic and political instability. Gordon
Cheung, Rui Matsunaga and Nahem Shoa all share through their different artistic
visions a desire to use archetypal narratives to express hope with
hallucinatory, shimmering and imagined forms to reflect on the human condition
within the constructs of civilisations.
