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 Night Seas, Auchmithie, East Coast Scotland - oil on canvas |
Featured on BBC Landward March 2008 - click to see Nael Hanna interview
Its over 20 years since Nael Hanna left his native Iraq on an art scholarship to Britain. In 1987 he attended Duncan of Jordonstone College of Art in Dundee and has since then risen to some prominence within the Scottish art scene. His abstract seascapes have a surging power and a rhythm that make them instantly recognisable but still within a Scottish School of painting. His still-lives and more abstract work retain this great ability with paint. Hanna's work is in major private and public collections worldwide.
"I am inspired by water, sound and nature, being fascinated by the changing colours and shapes reflected in the sea, land and sky. I enjoy looking for the rhythms created by nature and by the force of natural elements. I have spent a great deal of time studying the coastal landscape around my home, and however much at times I feel that I should escape from this recurring subject, I am always willingly drawn back by its sheer beauty and magnetism".
Born 1959
1984 Foundation Course in Art, Southampton Colle
ge of Art
1989 BA 1st Class Honours in Drawing & Painting, Duncan of Jordan ton
College of Art, Dundee
1990 MPhil in Public Art & Design, University of Dundee
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Dundee University Chaplainry, Dundee 1987
Bell Free Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark 1990
Kings Manor Gallery, University of York 1993
United Emirates, 1994
Seagate Gallery, Dundee 1994
Peebles Castle, Peebles, 1995
Queens Road Gallery, Aberdeen 1997, 1998
Stenton Gallery, West Lothian 1999
Compass Gallery, Glasgow 2001
Allessandro Studios Art Gallery, Dundee 2001
Duncan Millar, London, 2004
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Royal Scottish Academy Student Shows 1987
Aberdeen Art Society Annual Exhibition, Aberdeen Art Galleries & Museum,
1988 - 1999
New Art from Scotland, Cambridge University 1989 (3 artists)
Warwick Gallery, London 1989
Eva Jeykall Gallery, London 1990 (4 artists)
Gruzelier Modern & Contemporary Art, London 1990 - 1992
Winter Collection, Cyril Gerber Fine Art, Glasgow 1991
Scottish Art, York University 1991
London Art Fair, Compass Gallery, London 1991
Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh 1992
Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh 1991 - 2002
Society of Scottish Artists, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh Edinburgh
1993
Royal Glasgow Institute 1993 - 2002
Compass Gallery, Glasgow 1993 - 2004
Paperworks, Seagate Gallery, Dundee 1993 1994
Society of Scottish Artists & Artist Craftsmen, Royal Scottish Academy,
Edinburgh 1994 - 2003
Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh 1992 - 2001
Queens Road Gallery, Aberdeen 1997 - 2000
Lost Gallery, Strathdon Aberdeenshire 1998 - 2004
John Martin Gallery, London 1998, 1999 (3 artists)
Glasgow Art Fair, Lost Gallery, Glasgow 1999 - 2003
Stenton Gallery, West Lothian 1998 - 2004
Crail Gallery, Crail 1999, 2000
London Art Fair, Lost Gallery, 1999
Allesandro Studios Art Gallery, Dundee, 1999 - 2004
Richmonhill Gallery, Surrey, 1999 - 2001
Rowan Gallery, Loch Lomond, 2003, 2004
Wren Gallery, Oxfordshire, 2000
Manor House Gallery, Oxfordshire, 2003 (3 artists), 2004
Thompson’s Gallery, London, 2001 - 2004
City Gallery, London, 2001 - 2004
Duncan Millar, London, 2002 - 2004
AWARDS & COMPETITIONS
Summer Scholarship to Hospitalfield House, Arbroath 1988
Royal Scottish Academy, John Kinross Scholarship to study art in Florence
1989
First Prize, Tayside art Competition (Bank of Scotland), McEwan Ritchie Gallery
1990
First Prize in Dundee 800 Competition by Dundee District Council, McManus
Galleries & Museum, Dundee 1992
Highly Commended in ; Aberdeen Art Society Exhibition, Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museum
1989, Paperworks, Seagate Gallery, Dundee 1994
Zonta International Prize, Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museum 1995
TEACHING
Part time Lecturer at Duncan of Jordanston College of Art, Dundee, 1990,
1991
Artist in Residence at Anton House, Dundee, 1991 - 1996
WORKS IN PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
McManus Gallery & Museum, Dundee
Bank of Scotland, Dundee
Watson & Phillip, Dundee
United States of America, France, Egypt, Malaysia, United Arab Emirates,
and throughout the United Kingdom
Swiss pb Bank, Switzerland
MEDIA PUBLICITY
Grampian Television, “Faith Without Walls” 2002
Grampian Television News Feature on Local Artists 2001
Regular features in The Scotsman, Glasgow Herald, The Courier & Advertiser,
and the Press & Journal
Featured articles in the Leopard Magazine, and The Journal magazine 2002
