Clouds

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Downing Street

Ex-Royal College of Art graduate, Henna Nadeem lives in London. Many of her works use found images sourced from old books and National Geographic magazines which she hand cuts into intricate patterns and layers one over the other. This ‘lo-tech’ process involving scissors, scalpel and tweezers creates imaginary landscapes from small, often fragile images. Landscape and pattern define her work and distinguish her Cockspur Street designs. Entitled Heaven n Earth, they occupy the sixth and first floor meeting rooms. An Islamic symbol of heaven, the divided circles on the top floor create a star-burst sky in colours inspired by London sunsets. The first floor design will incorporate landscape forms in earthier colours. This is one of Nadeem’s larger-scale projects: others include a Platform for Art commission for Piccadilly Underground station; and a decorative gate for a community project in Brick Lane, east London.

Places

Subjects

landscape C20th, cloud

Materials & Techniques

collage, photograph (as object name), black & white photograph

Artist

Henna Nadeem (1966 - )

Title

Clouds

Date

2001

Medium

Collage of black and white photographs

Dimensions

height: 28.50 cm, width: 52.00 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from the artist, March 2005

Inscription

verso, br on secondary support: Henna Nadeem 'clouds', 2001

Provenance

the artist

GAC number

18009