Nourine Hammad

b. 1988, UK

Nourine Hammad is a contemporary Egyptian-British artist currently living and working in London. Her work is characterised by meticulously crafted and highly detailed photo and hyper-realistic drawings that explore issues around representation, truth and deception. Referencing a range of sources, from popular cartoon figures such as Mickey Mouse and Pinocchio to inflatable balloon letters from the Arabic alphabet or Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, Hammad takes the icons of capitalist culture and historical belief systems and reflects them back at us with uncanny precision and satirical wit. Her pop and vivid images, which often employ trompe l’oeil techniques, are deceptive, and delightfully so. They are also deeply subversive with the effect of drawing into question many of the representational values and attachments to truth we all hold dear.

Nourine Hammad was the winner of the Young Masters Lerouge Knight Cross Cultural Award 2023.