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Nahem Shoa is a new generation figurative artist, who paints from life powerful images about living in the 21st century. He is renowned for staging large-scale solo exhibitions in major city art galleries and museums in the United Kingdom. It is Shoa’s technical brilliance as a painter that has brought to life his themes of Youth Culture, Multi Culture and Giant Heads. His work has been showcased in national museums with Lucian Freud, Frank
Auerbach and David Bomberg. Shoa is a leading member of the New British Realist movement in art.


Natalie

Marive

Back of Ben's head


Ben


Scale
 


Desiree


Nahem


Fergus, back


Tiffany

   
Shoa believes that good objective painting can only be done well from life and is opposed to working from photogaraphy. For Shoa painting from the model is about discovering what he doesn’t yet know.
He has won many awards, including first prize in the Royal Society of Portrait Painters and The Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Award. His work is in several public art collections.
 
Recent Exhibitions:
February 4th-28th March 2007' True To Life' The Herbert, Coventry City Art Gallery. Work by Lucian Freud,
Frank Auerbach, David Bomberg, Robert Lenkiewicz, Nahem Shoa and New British Realists.

June 23-August 2006 ' Uncompromising Study' Hartlepool City Art Gallery. Painting's by, The New British Realists, ten of the best observational painter's in Britain today, including work by Lucian Freud, Frank Auerbach, Robert Lenkiewicz, Nahem Shoa and others. ( info on CV page)

Oct 2006 ' Facing Yourself' Bury City Art Gallery. Twenty five Giant Heads paintings of people living in Britain in the 21st century.
 
      Nahem Shoa