2025 EXHIBITIONS
LOVELY THUNDER
PACC Cessnock, 12 April – 25 May 2025
LOVELY THUNDER
PACC Cessnock, 12 April – 25 May 2025
– Curated by George Adams –
Nuha is excited to be included in the upcoming group exhibition Lovely Thunder. The title, Lovely Thunder, hints at the physical beauty of sound, rather than colour. However, this exhibition is quite definitely about colour and the effects it has as it passes into the eye and rings in the mind. We might think of it as an album that on each track shifts direction and invites your imagination to run free.
Exhibition opening:
Saturday May 10, 12 – 2pm all welcome!
Artwork details:
Zig Zag Chroma II 2024, Acrylic on wood, 20 x 7 x 27 cm
Photo credit: Docqment
2024 EXHIBITIONS
COLOUR IN FORM
James Makin Gallery Melbourne, July 27 – August 17, 2024
COLOUR IN FORM
James Makin Gallery Melbourne
27 July – 17 August, 2024
Solo exhibition at James Makin Gallery of new sculptures and wall works. More images here
Artwork Details: Side Line in Green 2024
Acrylic on wood, 20 x 20 x 7 cm
Photo credit: Docqment
FISHER’S GHOST ART AWARD FINALIST
Campbelltown Arts Centre, October 26 – December 6, 2024
FISHER’S GHOST ART AWARD FINALIST
Campbelltown Arts Centre, October 26 – December 6, 2024
Nuha is excited to be a finalist in this year’s Fisher’s Ghost Art Award held at Campbelltown Arts Centre with her sculpture The Folly of Purple, Orange and Blue (2023). Now in its 62nd year the Award is an annual art award and exhibition inviting artists to submit works in a variety of artistic categories and mediums.
Artwork details:
The Folly of Purple, Orange and Blue 2023 (detail)Acrylic on wood, 2 posts: 180 (h) x 25 x 25 cm & 160 (h) x 25 x 25
‘EQUALESSABLE‘
Artbank Sydney, September 3 – October 20 2024
‘EQUALESSABLE’
Artbank Sydney
September 3 – October 20, 2024
Nuha Saad is thrilled to be included in the exhibition ‘Equalessable’ curated by The Countess.Report at Artbank.
Artbank invited The Countess.Report to curate their Sydney Window gallery. Countess.Report investigates the structures and frameworks that govern artistic production and legitimation in the Australian contemporary art world. Their conceptual curatorial approach to working with the Artbank Collection emphasises collection methodologies. It uses the comma to situate selected works within the domains of both the symbolic and the sociological. More information here
Featured artists: Gordon Bennett, Linda Dement, Adrienne Doig, Margaret Dodd, Lesley Dumbrell, Leah Emery, Sarah Goffman, Pamela Irving, Iwantja Young Women’s Film Project, Alice Lang, Mai Nguy?n-Long, Elvis Richardson, Yasmin Smith, Clare Rae, Sarah Robson, Nuha Saad, Nicola Smith, Jenny Watson, Tjanpi Desert Weavers – Narelda Ken, Nyanu Ken, S Ken, Cynthia Charra, Noreen Heffernan, Maringka Tunkin.
Exhibition dates: September 3 – October 20, 2024
WOOLLAHRA SMALL SCULPTURE PRIZE 2024
Woollahra Gallery at Redleaf Sydney, September 13 – October 20 2024
WOOLLAHRA SMALL SCULPTURE PRIZE 2024
Nuha Saad is delighted to be a finalist in the Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize with her sculpture Stack (Home) 2024. Established in 2001, the Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize is Australia’s pre-eminent award for small sculpture and is the first national acquisitive prize for an original sculpture of up to 80cm in any dimension. Saad has been a finalist five times and her work Stack (Home) 2024, was selected from an impressive pool of 751 entries and is one of 59 finalists.
The 2024 prize judges were Liz Nowell (Executive Director of Arts Project Australia), Jarrod Rawlins (Director of Curatorial Affairs at the Museum of Old and New Art (Mona) in Hobart, Tasmania) and Erin Vink (Ngiyampaa curator and writer, living and working on Gadigal ngura. Curator, First Nations art (local and global) at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney).
Exhibition dates: 13 September – 20 Oct 2024
Artwork details:
Stack (Home), 2024
Acrylic on wood
21 x 16 x 17 cm
Photo credit: John McRae
DEAKIN UNIVERSITY CONTEMPORARY SMALL SCULPTURE AWARD 2024
Deakin University Art Gallery Melbourne, August 29 – October 11 2024
DEAKIN UNIVERSITY CONTEMPORARY SMALL SCULPTURE AWARD 2024
Nuha Saad is excited to be short-listed for this prestigious sculpture award with her work Zig Zag Chroma II 2024. This is the 15th year of the award, 646 entires were received from which 40 finalists were selected. The judges were Marguerite Brown, Curator Whitehorse Artspace, Todd Fuller, Artist/Curator/Performance Collaborator, and Leanne Willis from Deakin University.
In 2024 the prize judges were Marguerite Brown (Curator, Whitehorse Artspace), Todd Fuller (Artist/Curator/Performance Collaborator) and Leanne Willis (Senior Manager, Art Collection and Galleries Deakin University).
Exhibition dates: Thurs 29 Aug – Fri 11 Oct 2024
Artwork details:
Zig Zag Chroma II 2024
Acrylic on wood, 20 x 7 x 27 cm
Photo credit: Docqment
2023 EXHIBITIONS + PUBLIC ART
ROUND
Wollongong Art Gallery, June 30 – September 17 2023
ROUND
Wollongong Art Gallery 30 June – 17 September 2023
Round is an artist-led exhibition by mid-career artists whose practices include painting, sculpture, construction, installation and video, incorporating diverse media, materials and colour. The artists’ work examines ‘roundness’—exploring interpretations of circularity, curvature, bending— through exploration of shape, space and colour. Round highlights the problems, questions and answers of individual art practice, whilst collectively reflecting broader themes and subjects of popular culture, current affairs and global politics.
Artists: Andrew Christofides, Richard Dunn, Lynne Eastaway, Daniel Hollier, Pollyxenia Joannou, Lisa Jones, Tom Loveday, Hilarie Mais, Dani Marti, Al Munro, Eugenia Raskopoulos, Jacky Redgate and Nuha Saad. Coordinated by Lisa Jones and Tom Loveday.
Artwork details: The Folly of Purple, Orange and Blue 2023 (detail)
Acrylic on wood, 2 posts: 180 (h) x 25 x 25 cm & 160 (h) x 25 x 25
Photo credit: Richard Glover Photography
Parramatta Road Urban Amenity Improvement Program (PRUAIP) 2023
For Cumberland City Council, Create NSW and NSW Department of Planning and Environment
Parramatta Road Urban Amenity Improvement Program (PRUAIP) 2023
For Cumberland City Council, Create NSW and NSW Department of Planning and Environment
Nuha Saad was excited to work on the Parramatta Road Urban Amenity Improvement Program (PRUAIP), a $198 million initiative by the NSW Government to improve open space and active transport links along the Parramatta Road corridor.
For this project Saad created a number of sculptures that have been installed along Melton St South Auburn in the Cumberland City Council area in Western Sydney. The artworks are intended to add much needed colour and a sense of fun to the streetscape for the whole community to enjoy.
COLOUR-BIND
Woollahra Gallery 31 May – 25 June 2023
COLOUR-BIND
Woollahra Gallery 31 May – 25 June 2023
For ‘Colour-Bind’, Nuha Saad, Sherna Teperson, and Elefteria Vlavianos come together to present a suite of paintings, sculptures, and installations that reveal the material and sensate potential of colour and abstraction. Throughout, the artists’ distinct and varied chromatic, compositional and textural approaches are juxtaposed to conjure alchemy, energy and tension – breathing life into the words of artist Susan Hiller: “to experience a hit of ‘pure’ colour… is intoxicating.”
OMNIA ART PRIZE 2023
19 – 22 MAY 2023
OMNIA ART PRIZE 2023
19 – 22 MAY 2023 Melbourne
Nuha Saad is excited to be short-listed for the OMNIA art prize for 2023 with her work Zig Zag Chroma III (In Green).
Artwork details: Zig Zag Chroma III (In Green) 2022
Acrylic on wood, 54 x 19 x 10 cm
Photo Credit: Docqment
CANVA Melbourne
James Makin Gallery Offsite Exhibition
17 MAR — 17 SEP 2023
CANVA Melbourne
James Makin Gallery Offsite Exhibition
17 MAR — 17 SEP 2023
Artwork Details: Nuha Saad, Walking the Line IV, 2022
Photo Credit: Docqment
2022 EXHIBITIONS + PUBLIC ART
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WOMEN IN ABSTRACTION
ANZ Gallery Melbourne VIC September 2 – October 28 2022
Nuha is excited to be included in the Women in Abstraction exhibition curated by James Makin Advisory, the exhibition presents work by contemporary female artists working across the various fields of abstraction. Featuring work by Australian and New Zealand artists, the exhibition spotlights the remarkable contributions of contemporary female abstractionists to antipodean art history – and, indeed, art history at large.
Artists: Angela Brennan, Eleanor Louise Butt, Leslie Dumbrell, Emma Coulter, Lara Merett, Judy Millar, Nuha Saad, Antonia Sellbach, Noël Skrzypczak, Wilma Tabacco, Kate Tucker and Rebecca Wallis
Curated by Camille Klose for James Makin Advisory
Image Details: Women in Abstraction ANZ Gallery Melbourne
Nuha Saad (Sculpture) Judy Millar (Painting)
Photo Credit: Harry Trumble
BEECHWORTH CONTEMPORARY ART AWARD FINALIST
16 – 18 September 2022
BEECHWORTH CONTEMPORARY ART AWARD FINALIST
16 – 18 September 2022
Nuha was thrilled to be selected as one of ten finalists in the inaugural Beechworth Contemporary Art Award. The exhibiting artists were selected by a panel of art experts from over 200 applications received. The award took place in the beautiful historic town of Beechworth in the north-east of regional Victoria 16 – 18 September 2022.
Artwork details: Velvet Nostalgia III 2022 (detail)
Photo credit: Docqment
WOOLLAHRA SMALL SCULPTURE PRIZE FINALIST
Woollahra Gallery at Redleaf Sydney NSW 13 October 2022 – 20 November 2022
Nuha was thrilled to be chosen as a finalist in the Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize 2022. Established in 2001 this year the prize received 678 applications with 50 submissions being successful in selection for the finalist exhibition. The 2022 finalist artists hail from every Australian state and territory as well as international finalists from Auckland, New Zealand and Texas, USA.
The judges for this year’s prize were Joan Ross, Jose Da Silva and Kon Gouriotis OAM.
Artwork details: Sunburst II (XOX), 2022. Acrylic on wood. 15 x 65 x 20 cm
Photo credit: Docqment
RAZZLE DAZZLE CHROMA
James Makin Gallery Melbourne VIC June 18 – July 3, 2022
Nuha Saad is pleased to announce her debut solo exhibition Razzle Dazzle Chroma at James Makin Gallery in Melbourne, from June 18 – July 3 2022.
More about the exhibition here
Image Details: Razzle Dazzle Chroma Exhibition 2022 (Installation view)
Photo Credit: Ivana Smiljanic
DEAKIN UNIVERSITY CONTEMPORARY SMALL SCULPTURE AWARD FINALIST 2022
Melbourne VIC 7 September – 21 October 2022
Deakin University Contemporary Small Sculpture Award Finalist 2022
7 September – 21 October 2022
Nuha is excited to be selected as a finalist in the 2022 Deakin University Contemporary Small Sculpture Award. This is the 12th year of the award and from 306 entries only 41 finalist were selected. The award exhibition is on from Wed 7 Sept – Fri 21 October, 2022.
Artwork details: Sunburst (XOX), 2022. Acrylic on wood. 15 x 65 x 20 cm
Photo credit: Docqment
ARTIST PROFILE ISSUE 59 June 2022
An Archaeology of the Suburbs by Courtney Kidd
Nuha is thrilled to be included in the latest edition of Artist Profile 59 Issue, in a feature story An Archaeology of the Suburbs written by Courtney Kidd.
Photo credit: Anna Kucera
ART GUIDE May/June 2022
Structures of Colour written by Briony Downes
Nuha Saad was pleased to be included in Art Guide May/June 2022 edition, in a feature story Structures of Colour written by Briony Downes.
View the article here
Artwork details: Ornamental Fancies III 2020
Photo credit: Docqment
SUMMER NEW
James Makin Gallery Melbourne VIC January 20 – February 6
Nuha is excited to be exhibiting in Summer New at James Makin Gallery. This annual group exhibition of represented artists kicks off 2022, and is a highlight of the James Makin Gallery exhibition calendar. The exhibition sits as a dynamic glimpse of recent developments and things to come in a new year of contemporary art.
Artwork details (sculpture far left): The Folly of Colour III, 2021
Photo Credit: Ivana Smiljanic
2021 EXHIBITIONS + PUBLIC ART PROJECTS
JAMES MAKIN GALLERY REPRESENTATION
Nuha Saad is thrilled to announce she is now represented by James Makin Gallery in Melbourne.
Nuha will make her gallery debut in Summer New, opening January 2022, with a major solo exhibition to follow in June 2022.
Artist portrait: Felipe Olivares
SYDNEY CONTEMPORARY AT POMPOM
Galerie Pompom Sydney NSW November 3 – 21 2021
Nuha Saad and Hayley Megan French
Sydney Contemporary at Pompom
Exhibiting side by side for the first time, Sydney-based artists Hayley Megan French and Nuha Saad grace the front exhibition space of Galerie Pompom with a presentation of new paintings and sculptures where the colours, shapes and forms of Australian suburbia are enlivened. Shifting between abstraction and representation the flat compositions and sculptural forms featured in the exhibition highlight the architectural and ornamental elements of our surroundings, beyond the functional, to reflect on notions of locality, community and home.
Read more about the exhibition and the artists here
Artwork details: The Folly of Orange, Green and Purple, 2021
Photo Credit: Docqment
SPRING1883
Galerie Pompom with Artsy August 3 to 29 2021
Nuha Saad is excited to be participating in the seventh edition of Spring1883 with Galerie Pompom, in exclusive partnership with Artsy. Galerie Pompom is pleased to present an exciting selection of new and unseen works by Ron Adams, Chris Dolman, Jess Bradford, Nuha Saad, Evelyn Malgil, Adam Norton, Nana Ohnesorge and Samuel Quinteros.
Visit Galerie Pompom’s online booth via this link. Until 29 August
Artwork details: Zig Zag Romeo VIII 2021
Photo credit: Felipe Olivares
KALEIDOSCOPE 2021
Botany Road Alexandria Sydney NSW For City of Sydney and Atlas Group
Kaleidoscope Nuha Saad’s latest public art project was completed in 2021, the public art works consist of five multi-coloured steel column sculptures, the column forms have been designed to integrate harmoniously into the site and reflect its stepped ‘composition’. In addition, thirty coloured hexagon forms were installed into pre-formed recesses in the concrete benches and retaining walls at the site adding to the colourful nature of the site.
More Public Art Projects here
THE FOLLY OF COLOUR
Galerie Pompom Sydney NSW February 10 to March 14, 2021
Nuha Saad was pleased to present her first exhibition as a represented artist with Galerie Pompom in February this year. In the exhibition The Folly of Colour, eastern forms bump up against the hard geometries of minimalist and formalist tendencies alike, but in a gentle way. One side supports the other, completes it and balances it formally. (Michele Beevors, Principal Lecturer: Sculpture and Ceramics, Dunedin School of Art, Otago Polytechnic)
More exhibition details
Image: The Folly of Colour installation view
Photo Credit: Docqment
EXCITING AUSTRALIAN ART TO BUY FOR YOUR HOME
By Amy Campbell, The Australian, 13 January 2021
Nuha Saad was delighted to be included in the article Exciting Australian art to buy for your home by Amy Campbell.
50 works by 50 artists … Presenting The Australian’s inaugural summer exhibition, a showcase of the most exciting young Australian artists working today.
Life has changed. But the desire to surround ourselves with beauty and creativity endures, and has arguably deepened. And while accessing fine art in traditional ways – chiefly, visiting galleries here and abroad – has been disrupted, for many involved in this industry it has been a period of innovation that has spurred new and inclusive ways of viewing, understanding and buying art.
It’s this moment of evolution that has inspired The Australian’s Summer Exhibition — a showcase of sculptures, paintings, photographs and works on paper. Beautiful to look at, it’s a celebration of some of the best and brightest artists working today. Every work included is also for sale. All 50 pieces have been selected because they signify what’s happening in Australian art and culture right now.
Read article here
STOPPING BY THE COLOUR WHEEL (A Fabulation of Three Artists)
Grace Cossington Smith Gallery Sydney NSW May 15 to June 5 2021
The three artists in the exhibition, Nuha Saad, Sherna Teperson and Elefteria Vlavianos, delight in exploring the vibrational and sensate relationships between their works. They play with the syntax and colour relationships arising through both considered juxtaposition and play, revealing surprising relationships between colour and form, as they also consider the material and immaterial porous boundaries within the exhibition.
More exhibition images
RAVENSWOOD AUSTRALIAN WOMEN’S ART PRIZE 2021
Sydney NSW May 2021
Nuha Saad was excited to be chosen as a finalist in the The Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize 2021 with her sculpture Ornamental Fancies III. The Prize is an annual acquisitive prize that was launched in 2017 to advance art and opportunity for emerging and established women artists in Australia. It is the highest value professional artist prize for women in Australia.
2020 EXHIBITIONS + PUBLIC ART PROJECTS
SYDNEY CONTEMPORARY PRESENTS 2020
October 1 to 31, 2020
Nuha Saad was delighted to exhibit her sculpture Ornamental Fancies III, 2020 with Galerie Pompom at Sydney Contemporary Presents 2020, an experiential, bespoke digital art initiative that aims to support the arts community.
THE HOME
Hazelhurst Regional Gallery Sydney NSW August 29 to November 8 2020
THE HOME is an exhibition of contemporary works that celebrate suburbia and the home.
Artists: Catherine O’ Donnell, Christopher Zanko, Kevin Mckay, Lucy O’Doherty, Nuha Saad,Tracey Clement
Curator: Carrie Kibbler
Exhibition Dates: August 29 – November 8 2020
GALLERIE POMPOM REPRESENTATION
Nuha Saad is thrilled to announce she is now represented by Galerie Pompom in Sydney and will have a solo exhibition with the gallery in 2021.
MEDIA
Art Collector Nuha Saad Joins Gallery Pompom
By Emma Pham
KALEIDOSCOPE JODY KAHLON + NUHA SAAD
1066 Glenhuntley Rd, Glenhuntley Melbourne VIC
KALEIDOSCOPE is a creative collaboration between Melbourne fashion designer Jody Kahlon and Sydney artist Nuha Saad. Together they have created a bold theatrical work, where fashion meets sculpture, colour and optimism!
MEDIA RELEASE
Jody Kahlon X Nuha Saad Collaboration Media Release (pdf)
TOM BASS SCULPTURE PRIZE 2020
Juniper Hall Paddington Sydney NSW 6 – 20 March 2020
Nuha Saad was selected as a finalist in the Tom Bass sculpture prize, the exhibition was held at Juniper Hall Paddington 6 – 20 March 2020.