Art on a Postcard for War Child UK

About 

Naomi portrays a fragmented mythology using recurring symbols as an aid to unveil previously forgotten memories. Her intimate iconography reconciles her experience of loss, inviting ever-evolving reinterpretations of a personal mythology. The titles are mediated from conversations with her mother before she passed, and now late-night ones shared with her sister. The imagery is inspired by these not as a literal depiction, but an embodiment of the sensations that memories provoke but cannot put into words. Naomi is interested in how painting, combined with text fragments, empowers the re-experiencing of a moment. 

In the work people emerge as otherworldly beings, perhaps they are ghosts, gods, or vessels. Naomi uses the medium of watercolour on stretched cotton, its sensitivity allows the work to hint at a forms perceptible outline without reducing it to a fixed image or narrative. The space embodies an unearthly presence, appearing and disappearing simultaneously. 

Education 

2022   BA (hons) Fine art painting, University of Brighton, First class  

2019   Level 3 diploma fine art (UAL awarding body), Bedford College, Distinction 

Select Exhibitions/Awards 

2022   ‘Winter exhibition’, Woburn art gallery, Woburn  

2022   ‘It’s my life’ House of Smalls, Online 

2022   ‘Shapes and things’ Open Ealing art studio, London 

2022   ‘Brighton degree show’, Grand parade, Brighton  

2022   ‘Dot to dot’ Coachwerks Gallery, Brighton 

2022   ‘Relationship with the self’ Take courage gallery, London 

2022   ‘LSM art award’ LSM offices, London 

2022   ‘Autumn exhibition’ Gallerie V, Cambridge 

2022   ‘Accessible art show’ Black white gallery, London 

2022  ‘Juice box’ RuptureXIBIT, London 

2022  ‘Night flowers’ The flower gallery, Bedford  

2023  ‘Yourself in my shoes’ Tube culture hall, Milan 

2023  ‘Spring exhibition’ Gallerie V, Cambridge 
 

LSM Art Award 2022 

Nominated for Nagoya Arts award 2022 

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