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WE ARE PLEASED TO PRESENT THIS EXCLUSIVE LIMITED EDITION ARTIST BOOK AND PRINT BY LONDON-BASED ARTIST CARA NAHAUL (B. 1987, UK).
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London-based artist Cara Nahaul (b. 1987, UK) saturates landscapes and interiors with colour and imagination to create sites of reflection upon identity, culture and memory. Her vibrant paintings explore the character of tropical places, in particular those connected with her familial heritage. In these works, pink palms sway against lemon hued skies, row boats lay scattered across scarlet beaches, and periwinkle mountains loom in the distance. Warming and alluring, Nahaul’s invented settings shift between the highly fictive and fantastically real, alluding to a personal and psychological undercurrent that quietly reverberates throughout. The artist invites viewers to imagine how they might mine, reconstruct and reflect upon their own personal histories.
Nahaul’s drawings play an integral role in the development of her paintings, and push her use of simple line, form and bold colour even further into view. For her first collaboration with Cactus Moon Studio she has release a limited-edition book (Edition of 100 + 10 APs). Bringing together drawings in pastel, pencil and charcoal, the monograph replicates the look and feel of an artist sketchbook, punctuated with Nahaul’s hand-written texts. Presented alongside the publication is a signed and numbered limited-edition archival pigment print (Edition of 50 + 5 APs), offered alongside the book.
Nahaul's book 'Swimming Lessons' shares the same title as her most recent solo exhibition at Taymour Grahne Projects, London (10 Sep - 22 Oct 2022). -
“Drawing, like swimming, is learning how to enjoy uncertainty.
Drawing brings me a little closer to those I am separated from.”
- CARA NAHAUL
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CARA NAHAUL: Limited Edition Book & Print
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