THE NECESSITY OF ORNAMENT
September 6 – October 2, 2011
Nuha Saad’s new exhibition continues her playful investigations into colour and form. Saad works in between assemblage, painting and sculpture, combining ready‐made objects and colour in inventive configurations.
EXHIBITION ESSAY
The Necessity of Ornament (pdf)
By Dr Jacqueline Millner
IMAGINED CONSTELLATIONS
September 29 – October 18, 2009
MEDIA
Concrete Playground Nuha Saad: Imagined Constellations
By Genevieve O’Callaghan
James Dorahy Project Space presents Nuha Saad: Imagined Constellations. Saad is interested in form and colour, order and repetition. Continually interrogating domestic space, the Sydney-based artist’s past work has incorporated the finer details of the home, like cornices and skirting boards, commenting on the trimmings we add to the necessities. Imagined Constellations features a series of wooden blocks, some painted, some not. The poetry is in their constellation – patterns and forms emerge from Saad’s placement of the pieces, and also from the wood itself. The cross section of the wood is like a thumbprint, at once individual and universal. As the title suggests, the arrangement of the forms here are guides to something greater in our universe.
THE NEW CITY BEAUTIFUL PROJECT
September 11 – 30, 2007
Nuha Saad explores the relationship between architecture and space in relation to contemporary theories surrounding abstraction and sculpture. Her highly coloured works painted in complex secondary and tertiary colour schemes investigate the inter-relationships between space and form, colour and ornamentation. She works in a poetic and speculative way while engaging with discourses of abstraction, aesthetics, memory and identity.