Henna Nadeem was born in England, 1966, and graduated with an MA from the Royal College of Art, London in 1993. Nadeem is a London-based artist, her ‘Trees Water Rocks’ (2004) series being one of large-scale landscapes which she is most known for, was installed in the ticket hall of Piccadilly Circus Underground station. She has also exhibited widely in group exhibitions across the UK including ‘Wood for the Trees and Falling Leaves’ Gimpel Fils, London (2007); ‘Alien Nation’, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London (2006 to 2007) and ‘Picture of Britain’, Tate Britain (2005).
“Henna Nadeem works with found images of the landscape, using pictures that evoke strong western pictorial traditions. She then uses pattern templates derived from a variety of non-western sources as a basis for grafting images together into delicately interwoven collages. The mesmerising results of this process present a perceptual challenge as two visual traditions collide. In these collages, Nadeem has pushed her work to new extremes, to powerful hallucinatory effect. This blend of childlike innocence and knowing subversion gives the artist’s work its critical tension and this series its particular poignancy.” – http://www.cornerhouse.org/bookstore/product/henna-nadeem
Below are my digital attempts at Nadeem’s style of photography:
In comparison to Sense’s weaving, I prefer this style of using digital manipulation, mainly because it allows the audience to see a clear image with the pattern and the photographs. Also, digitally adapting can allow for a wide variety of patterns to be used and experimented with.
Photography A2 Exam 