Nour Jaouda is a Libyan artist based between London and Cairo.

Nour Jaouda fuses life and aesthetic practice through her continual movements between places real and remembered. Through earthy, saturated colors and the fiber medium, Jaouda explores tensions such as closeness and distance, presence and absence, and fragmentation and reconstruction. The simultaneous experiences of rooting, as a process, and being rootless imbue her work with conceptual, sensory dimensions. Whether evoking the uprooting or replanting of the self, Jaouda’s textiles embed the fluidity of identity and a constant state of becoming. This shape-shifting is made visible through the layering and folding of richly colored fabrics the artist has hand-dyed, cut, and restitched. Traversing environments and ecologies, Jaouda collects the natural pigments, cloths, and found materials for her tapestries and fiber installations. She lives and works between Cairo, where her family resides, and London, where she obtained her MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art in 2021. 

Threading her works are notions of rootlessness and resilience, destruction and regeneration, and timelessness. Jaouda relishes in the slow, physical and felt processes of fabricating hand-dyed textiles. Their inherent connectivity begets their association with the eternal and divine; to the artist, textiles have no beginning or end. The vegetal dyes possess their own force and unpredictability to activate the work. Jaouda’s sumptuously layered fabrics reverberate with colors at once deep and ethereal, shadowy and luminescent, as infinitely textured as memory itself. 

Jessica Gerschultz

Education:

2019-2021 Royal College of Art, MA Painting

2015-2018  The Ruskin School of Art, BFA, Oxford University

Selected Exhibitions:

2024 60th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia

Stranieri Ovunque - Foreigners Everywhere - Curated by Adriano Pedrosa

2023 Where, if not faraway, is my place? Solo exhibtion, Union Pacific Gallery, London

2022 Yein Lee & Nour Jaouda, Beacon Gallery, Augustenstrasse 33a, Munich

2022 DRAPE, Fold Gallery, W1W 6YW, London

2022 ARCO Madrid, VIII Premio Opening Section, East Contemporary Gallery. Avda. del Partenón, Madrid

2021 This is Not a Curated Exhibition, Galleria Ramo, Via Borsieri 4/d, Como, Italy

2021 London Grads Now, Saatchi Gallery, London

2021 Warm Vessels in Search at Sunset, Harlesden High School, London

2021 Tomorrow 2021, White Cube Online

2021 Royal College of Art Degree Show, Cromwell Place, London

2021 Social Fabric, FOLD Gallery, W1W 6YW, London

2021 What Remains, Encounter Contemporary, Copeland Gallery, SE15 3SN, London

2021 Final, not Over- again, Unit 1 Gallery, W10 6TP, London

2021 DEEP CUT, Asylum Chapel, SE15 2SQ, London

2020 PENDING, San Mei Gallery, SW9 7TB, London

2020 5 HOURS, 42 S Molton St, Mayfair, London

2020 Thought Threads, San Mei Gallery, SW9 7TB, London

2020 Snapshot, Hockney Gallery, Royal College of Art, London

2020 WIP Exhibition, Royal College of Art, London

2019 Townhouse Gallery Artist Residency, Cairo, Egypt

2019 PLOP Artist Residency, Morley House, EC1A2AT, London

2019 A Liminal Object, Numeroventi Artist Residency, Florence, Italy

2018 between the borderlines, The Emery Prize, Pembroke Art Gallery, Oxford

2018 Ruskin Degree Show, The Ruskin School of Art, Oxford

2018 Khareetet Al Galabeya, Solo Show, Dolphin Gallery, Oxford

2017 A Khawaja Complex, Solo show, Dolphin Gallery, Oxford(Curated)

2017 Façade, St Catherine's College, Oxford (Curated)

2016 Ruskin Preliminaries, Ruskin High St, Oxford

2016 Apiary, St Catherine's College, Oxford

2016 ‘Oh The Shoe Has Been Lost’, Dolphin Gallery, Oxford

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Contact:

nourjaouda@outlook.com

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