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While she likes to paint from life, Nneka Uzoigwe works as much from her mind when creating her visionary pictures. Like waking dreams, they meld the real with the surreal, the concrete with the curious, forcing the viewer to question what they believe they see, whether that’s a knitted piece of fruit or a shell-shaped doorknob. Born in Nigeria in 1990, Nneka - who is the recent recipient of two awards by the Royal Society of Portrait Painters and is represented by Panter & Hall - had a peripatetic childhood, memories of which have shaped her chimerical imagery; as a consequence, she says she feels “more a person of the world” than anything else. Home, to this nimble-minded artist “is where you make it”. Right now, that’s London, a place she’s always yearned to live in. Join us as we visit her Battersea studio, a glowing room full of unexpected objects, as the painter walks us through her magical imaginings.
Film: Jan Vrhovnik
Words: Grace McCloud
Production: Hannah Phillips
Graphic design: Tom Young
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