Title:  Ancestors

Year: 2024

Media: Oil and silkscreen on paper

Size: 41.7 x 28.8

About the work: The first layer of this work on paper was the silkscreened outline of a shape I’ve been working with for 15 years - one of the bonnets of the Breton women in Gauguin’s painting: Vision after the Sermon (Jacob Wrestling with the Angel). Here I painted in the back of the woman with a face emerging from her back.

Bio: Rosalind Nashashibi (1973, London, UK) is a London based artist of Northern Irish and Palestinian descent. She received her BA in Painting from Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield (UK)  and her MFA at Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow (UK). In 2020, Nashashibi was artist in residence at the National Gallery in London (UK). She was a Turner Prize nominee in 2017, and represented Scotland in the 52nd Venice Biennale. Her work has been included in Documenta 14, The 14th Shanghai Biennale, Manifesta 7, The Nordic Triennial, and Sharjah 10. Nashashibi received a Paul Hamlyn Award in 2014 and Becks Futures Award in 2003. Her solo exhibitions include; Nottingham Contemporary (UK); Musée Art Contemporain Carré d’Art, Nîmes (FR), Radvila Palace Museum of Art for CAC, Vilnius (LT), Vienna Secession, (A), Kunstinstituut Melly, Rotterdam, (NL), The High Line, New York, (US); The Art Institute of Chicago, (US); and ICA, London (UK).