°1974, lives and works in Berlin, London and Kent
Nadia Hebson employs the ostensibly traditional techniques of portrait, seascape and still life to explore a contemporary psychological experience. The appropriation of art historical imagery via the language of Romanticism and Medieval portraiture, allow her often melancholic paintings to shift between acute realisation and ambiguity.
Hebson sees her practice as “painting and lying”, with the pursuit of any standard truth untenable, whether this be visual, historical or personal. The filmmaker Werner Herzog has said of his own creative process: “I believe you can discover a very deep, ecstatic truth by fabricating. My films find deeper truth in trying to be inventive”
Nadia Hebson studied at The Royal Academy Schools and Central St Martins. From 2008-09 she was the Durham Cathedral Artist in Residence. In 2008 she was awarded the Sovereign European Art Prize and held a scholarship at the British School at Rome. Solo exhibitions have included September, DLI Museum, 2009, and Bergholzli, Vane, Newcastle 2007. Group Exhibitions have included The Jerwood Contemporary Painters, Jerwood Space, London , 2008, Salon Nouveau, Englholm Engelhorn, Vienna, 2007, and The Portrait, V22 Ashwin Street, London 2006. Curatorial projects include The Whiteness of the Whale, Transition, 2008. A contributor to magazines Arty and Garageland she has a long term association with the gallery Transition, London. She is currently HPA Fine Art Lecturer at The University of Kent.
Hebson sees her practice as “painting and lying”, with the pursuit of any standard truth untenable, whether this be visual, historical or personal. The filmmaker Werner Herzog has said of his own creative process: “I believe you can discover a very deep, ecstatic truth by fabricating. My films find deeper truth in trying to be inventive”
Nadia Hebson studied at The Royal Academy Schools and Central St Martins. From 2008-09 she was the Durham Cathedral Artist in Residence. In 2008 she was awarded the Sovereign European Art Prize and held a scholarship at the British School at Rome. Solo exhibitions have included September, DLI Museum, 2009, and Bergholzli, Vane, Newcastle 2007. Group Exhibitions have included The Jerwood Contemporary Painters, Jerwood Space, London , 2008, Salon Nouveau, Englholm Engelhorn, Vienna, 2007, and The Portrait, V22 Ashwin Street, London 2006. Curatorial projects include The Whiteness of the Whale, Transition, 2008. A contributor to magazines Arty and Garageland she has a long term association with the gallery Transition, London. She is currently HPA Fine Art Lecturer at The University of Kent.