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Nahem Shoa - artist - The Unselfish Selfie October 8 2022 - March 4 2023
Nahem Shoa explained his approach to the exhibition as follows:
“We live in an age where social media has taken over people’s everyday life. We ‘share’ our lives with ‘friends’, most of whom we have never met, knowing these ‘friends’ around the world only through their posts and carefully composed self-images.
The modern selfie is a form of group vanity that has never been seen on this scale in the history of the world.”
In contrast the artists in The Unselfish Selfie don’t use clichéd poses. They are caught in the process of self-examination, confronting their own frailties and their own mortality. Others use their own image to explore the big issues of today, such as identity, diversity and gender", Nahem Shoa
“We live in an age where social media has taken over people’s everyday life. We ‘share’ our lives with ‘friends’, most of whom we have never met, knowing these ‘friends’ around the world only through their posts and carefully composed self-images.
The modern selfie is a form of group vanity that has never been seen on this scale in the history of the world.”
In contrast the artists in The Unselfish Selfie don’t use clichéd poses. They are caught in the process of self-examination, confronting their own frailties and their own mortality. Others use their own image to explore the big issues of today, such as identity, diversity and gender", Nahem Shoa
FACE OF BRITAIN - NAHEM SHOA
Nahem Shoa was born in London in 1968. His parents are from, Scottish, Yemeni, Eritrean, and Russian backgrounds and he grew up in Notting Hill, London one of Britain’s most culturally diverse neighbourhoods. In his teens he worked as a graffiti artist before studying at Manchester College of Art, the Princes Drawing School and later with artist Robert Lenkiewicz. He has curated a number of exhibitions on the theme of race and multiculturalism and his work is held by collections including Southampton City Art Gallery, the Victoria and Albert Museum, Manchester City Art Gallery, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle, The Hatton, Newcastle and the Royal Albert Memorial Museum and Art Gallery, Exeter. The V&A has a drawing by Shoa.
Nahem Shoa: Face of Britain 2020
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FACE OF BRITAIN, curated by Nahem Shoa, is an exhibition of portraits by outstanding artists who have painted British individuals from the 17th century to the present day. At its heart is a selection of Shoa’s own striking oil paintings of black and mixed race sitters.
Face of Britain asks a question which is especially pertinent as world events force the widespread reassessment of our history and institutions: What does it mean to be British in 2020? At a time when many of the paintings in our national museums do not represent a non-white presence in Britain with evidence suggests stretches back to Roman times, this is a portrait of our country inviting us to consider our diversity. Nahem Shoa Face of Britain - Southampton City Art Gallery 25 September 2020 -20 February 2021 The exhibition will launch just ahead of Black History Month and run until February - October 2021. Shoa has chosen work by contemporary black artists like Desmond Haughton, Sonia Boyce and Chris Ofili to be displayed alongside historic portraits by Antony Van Dyck and John Singer Sargeant and paintings by seminal Modernist figures such as Gwen John, Walter Sickert and Frank Auerbach.
‘The portrait has always been political, originating with iconic depictions of God and used by Kings as a symbol of their divine right to rule over their subjects. I want my portraits to be great works of art but also to work as political propaganda for positive change’. |
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Nahem Shoa talks about life, art, nature, climate change, race and Black Lives matter during Covid-19 2020. His themes have always reflected current concerns. His paintings of his friends from BME backgrounds were ahead of their times. Racism then was so systemic that these paintings were not given their true significance. He is part of the Arborealists, artists who love trees.
Nahem Shoa's painting of Desiree is on display at The Laing, Newcastle,
 Nahem Shoa
Nahem Shoa’s artistic vision draws heavily on the current state of the world that capture the zeitgeist of this present moment in history,.climate change nature, trees, race, BLM, BME and BAME, art history and the complex and visionary language of his subconscious imagination. Shoa creates multi coloured, layered, contemporary figurative landscape paintings that combine translucent vibrant drizzles, of paint, chunky impasto, hallucinatory colour glazes with emotional drawing marks scratched into the surface of the canvas. In these contemporary scenes
NAHEM SHOA PAINTER - ARTIST http://www.nahemshoa.co.uk Nahem Shoa constructs his contemporary scene with theatrical flair: his figures are staged in Baroque compositions and there is always an element of spectacle, drawing on his encyclopedic knowledge of Art History and technique. Like Doig, Richter, Rauch and Ghenie, Shoa gets to the heart of the expressiveness of paint capturing a poetic vibrancy through texture, richness of colour and illusion of light. Black Portraits-Nahem Shoa at RAMM http://www.youtube.com/nahemshoa Take a look at more images painted and drawn by Nahem Shoa "When a butterfly lands for 10 minutes on your drawing you know that you are totally at one with nature and she is blowing you kisses. The more I look at trees I marvel at their ability to adapt and survive, They live so long and have been witness to so many human events that you truly feel they have a soul." Nahem Shoa 2018 (extract).
A Butterfly lands on Nahem Shoa's drawing, 2018
Nahem Shoa, Paintings
http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/exh_gfx_en/ART40509.html
Kate Carson Art Crtic and Art Historian reviews Nahem Shoa's work at his solo show at Bury Museum & Art Gallery. See Nahem Shoa's imaginative paintings 2013/15 "Shoa seems to be a artist who has a craving for the strange and the extreme, which only goes to make these drawing more disturbing, beautiful and full of visionary character."  Giant Heads Many
Nahem Shoa shows his paintings on his Giant Head's site. http://nahemshoapaintings.weebly.com
Below are some of Nahem Shoa's collaged paintings. His numerous awards include the first prize from the Royal Society of Portrait Painters, the Lord Leighton Prize and the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Award.
 Pieta: Nahem Shoa Drawing
Nahem Shoa has been fascinated by Monkeys and Primates all his life and his rotary pen drawings are testament to this.
Nahem Shoa makes these drawings from a combination of memory, art history and his own imagination. 
Furze is artist PETER DAVIS'S WEBSITE OF TRAVELLING SKETCHES "This site consists mostly of quick sketches I made while travelling. I find that trying to draw what I see engages me in the moment, while using a camera distances and excludes."
Inma Meruelo reads the book the wrote and illustrated for children during Covid-19 Pandemic 2020/21 to help them understand what is going on without fear. (C)
Once Upon a Time in Covid-19 Time. Inma Meruelo wrote and illustrated a book for children Once Upon a Time in Covid -19.
"I produced a video animation of Inma reading her marvellous book." Myrna Shoa |
A Childhood RememberedMyrna Shoa and her late sister Sandra's stories
A CHILDHOOD REMEMBERED is a wonderful archive of two loving sisters,"In the last year of my sister Sandra's life we passionately gathered together our stories from our childhood for this website. We disagreed sometimes about what happened realising that we saw the world through our own eyes. This enlivened the recollections, made them richer. These stories are mainly for our families to read, to answer questions about their backgrounds, history and connection to the other cultures they have come from. With Sandra's passing I am the last of the Horowitchs. No one else is alive.Without this wonderful story gathering I would not have been able to write, illustrate and have published Strange Ways Stories about our shared upbringing. As children the only relatives we had were dad Joseph and mum Ina and our Uncle Morris and Aunty Rosie. The relatives on our mother Ina's side, the Hendry's as far as knew were dead. Sandra and I met Aunty Betty, our mother's sister several times in London and Uncle James our mother's brother a few times, in Scotland.
Sandra lives on in these stories, These stories may resonate with yours,". 
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MY SISTER SANDRA a great artist and jewellery maker died on November 18th 2007, See her wonderful ArtWork. My tribute to my sister. Images from my wonderful late sister Sandra Barnard. Wild Dance Images. Admire, her jewellery. A talented, skillfull woman and sister. The Fool 1970s London fashionThe Fool Ltd Myrna, Shoa, Ruti and Aury entrepreneurial women's fashion. Take a look at The Fool website - a start.
Donald Dede is a graphic designer - 2020 Art gallery website
www.donalddede.weebly.com Donald Dede's Art Photos of London and Beyond. http://www.users.waitrose.com/~indeezine/index.html
 Comfort and Desiree
Donald Dede, artist writes about his Six Weeks In Nigeria. He has created a website-blog filled with his photos and vivid stories of his emotional visit to his family.
http://6-weeks-in-nigeria.weebly.com/ https://12-weeksin-nigeria.weebly.com  Hazel Riley
Hazel Riley
I am a writer who draws her inspiration from many sources including nature, dance, mythology, popular culture, art and old movies. I have written two novels for teenagers Thanis and The Crying, both published by Oxford University Press. I have written and published resources for beginner adult readers with my friend and colleague Myrna Shoa.
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Gbenga Ilumoka is an artist, a painter in oils and acrylics. He is passionate about art and art history. "As a black artist I am always trying to make powerful paintings that provoke change in the art world. I want the black presence in my paintings to be reflected across Britain today".
Gbenga Ilumoka is a close friend of Nahem Shoa. |
Gbenga self portrait
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