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Hormazd Narielwalla

Hormazd Narielwalla (b. 1979) is a -based artist who works in collage.

Narielwalla uses found materials; tailoring patterns, and their antiquarian and contemporary trade counterparts, to create artworks exploring the body in abstract form. Narielwalla’s work is a meditation on the human condition, proposing a new interpretation of tailoring patterns as interesting abstracted drawings of the human form. Freed from function they are drawings ahead of their time, anthropomorphic in origin and beautifully abstract in isolation.

Narielwalla holds a PhD from University of Arts, London, and is the author of a biography of Master Tailor Michael Skinner, The Savile Row Cutter (2011). Since his first solo show, Study on Anansi (2009), sponsored and exhibited by Sir Paul Smith, he has developed a permanent presence and critical acclaim in the academic and commercial art world alike. He exhibits regularly in London an internationally, and has collaborated with organisations and brands including the Serpentine Galleries; Artbelow; Jigsaw; Tiger of Sweden. Narielwalla’s work is held in public and private collections worldwide, including the ; the National Art Library, INIVA; Fashion Institute of Technology, New York; and Parsons School of Art & Design, New York.

He is the winner of the 2014 Saatchi Art Showdown Prize, and in 2016 was awarded the Paupers Press Prize at the International Print Biennial in Newcastle, resulting in a new commission to be shown at the in April 2017. Narielwalla’s first exhibition with Gallery Elena Shchukina will open in June 2017. Education: 2009-14 PhD in Fine Art, University of the Arts London 2006-07 MA & Enterprise, The University of Westminster, London 2003-06 BA Fashion Design, The University of Wales, Newport, BA Awards: 2016 Winner, Paupers Press Prize, International Print Biennale, Newcastle 2014 Winner, Saatchi Art Showdown – The Body Electric 2009 Awarded the first International Rectors Scholarship to read on a PhD at University of Arts London 2007 Awarded 2 Erach Roshan Sadri Foundation grants Solo Exhibitions: 2016 Lost Gardens, Southbank Centre, London 2016 Body Architecture, Foundry Gallery with Saatchi Art, London 2015 Showcase, Fasion Museum, Bath 2015 Haute Collage, Art 18/21, Norwich 2015 Saatchi Art, Timothy Everest Atelier, London 2014 Birla Academy of Art and Culture, India Art Fair 2014 2013 Love Nest, Margaret Street Gallery, London 2012 Lady Gardens, Long White Cloud, London 2012 Showcase, Harvey Nichols, London 2012 Dead Man’s Patterns Memento Mori, Sheridan&Co, London 2012 The Other Art Fair, London 2011 Fairy-God, Fashion-Mother, Modern Pantry, London 2010 Hat-Parade, Bernstock Speirs, London 2009 A Study On Anansi, Paul Smith Gallery, London Selected Group Exhibitions: 2017 Migrations, Eagle Gallery, London 2016 Woolich contemporary Print Fair, London 2016 International Print Biennale, Newcastle 2014 Spring Fever, Saatchi Suite, Hyatt Regency London 2014 Glue, CHART Gallery, London 2013 Connect, A-Side B-Side Gallery, London 2013 Pap(I)er Fashion, Galerie Stihl, Waiblingen, produced by ATOPOS cvc in association with Barbican, London 2013 COLLECT 13, Crafts Council, England, 2012 Summer Salon, Islington Art Factory, London 2012 Imprint, Centre of Possible Studies, Serpentine Gallery, London 2011 Block Party, Crafts Council, touring exhibit, UK 2011 Drawing and the body, KG52 Gallery, Stockholm 2010 Art Below, Old Street Tube station, London 2010 Drawing Out, RMIT, Australia 2010 Scope Art Fair, New York Publications: 2017 Lost Gardens, artist’s book 2015 Anansi Tales, artist’s book 2014 Hungarian Peacocks, artist’s book 2011 The Savile Row Cutter, Benefactum Publishers 2008 Dead Man’s Patterns, artist’s book Collections: National Art Library Special Collections Rare British Modern Collection at the British Library Stuarts Hall Library of Artist Books, Iniva collection Courtauld Institute of Art collection Fashion Institute of technology collection of artist books, New York Central Saint Martin’s collection of artist books London College of Fashion, Special Collections Edinburgh college of Art Special Collections University of Winchester Special Collection of Artist Books Manchester Metropolitan University Somerset College, Arts & technology Liverpool John Moores University Special Collections, Fashion Institute of Technology, New York Special Collections, Parsons School, Art & Design, New York Special Collections, University of Minnesota

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