Nadia Attura is a contemporary artist, born and raised in the UK, who mixes landscape photography with tactile collage to create uncanny utopias from the imagination. Working with a complex and multifaceted process of layering, Nadia Attura's artworks incorporate unexpected imagery to produce poetic portrayals of place and time.
Nadia Attura is a contemporary artist, born and raised in the UK, who mixes landscape photography with tactile collage to create uncanny utopias from the imagination. Working with a complex and multifaceted process of layering, Nadia Attura's artworks incorporate unexpected imagery to produce poetic portrayals of place and time.
Attura uses analogue and digital photographs taken on location on her travels around the world. Her meticulous collaging combines unexpected elements, resulting in dreamy scenes that explore idealism and paradise, accentuated by Attura’s enriched colour palette, which adds a touch of the absurd to her compositions. The artist later applies washes, paints, ink and chalk to her works, which imbues them with an illustrative feel. Press features include The Guardian, The New York Times, and artist of the month for Vogue Magazine. One of five finalists at the VAO, Attura’s work continues to delight viewers and feature in prominent residential and public projects across the world. We’ve been working with Nadia Attura since 2019.
We love the uniquely inspired and idealised interpretation of an alternative paradise that Attura carefully curates.
Attura has featured in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition in 2019, 2016 and 2023.
Attura graduated from The University of Arts London in 1999 with a Postgraduate in Photojournalism.
Attura lives in London.
Attura creates a balance between the real and the surreal.
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Nadia Attura is a talented artist that mixes landscape collage with tactile collage to create immersive utopian landscapes plucked straight from her imagination. We had a chat with Nadia to discover what keeps her inspired, where her love of art comes from, and whether she has a favourite piece. AR: Where do you find yourself most inspired? NADIA: I’m inspired by nature, green spaces, and when I travel away from my usual environment. I take more notice of my surroundings when travelling - there is an amplified joy of discovering the new, the unfamiliar and it heightens my senses and ...
