Biography
Nashashibi/Skaer if the joint practice of Turner Prize nominated artists Rosalind Nashashibi (b. London 1973) and Lucy Skaer (b. 1975) who also have international solo careers. They met in Glasgow and began working together in 2005. Their films have shown internationally to critical acclaim at venues such as the Berlin Biennial 5, Tate Britain, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Carnegie Museum of Art and the ICA London and they are represented in public collections including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Pompidou, FRAC Marseille, and Arts Council Collection, UK.
Recent works have taken existing artworks as their starting point, such as Why Are You Angry? which utilises Gauguin’s vision of the south seas. This film, premiered at Documenta 14, and formed part of a retrospective exhibition for Tate St Ives 2018. In 2019, Nashashibi/Skaer had a major show Future Sun at SMAK in Ghent. This brought together their solo practices and collaboration for the first time and was a site of fruitful cross pollination for both. A recent film Lamb resulted – their first collaboration with composers and musicians. Their new film Bear, a sequel to Lamb, was premiered as part of CURRENT: Contemporary Art from Scotland (Phase Four) at OCAT Shenzhen, a major international collaboration between Cooper Gallery, University of Dundee and leading contemporary art venues in China.
A recent exhibition called Chimera, from the ancient Greek for a female goat and today refers to a beast or an idea composed of incongruous parts, an illusion or fabrication of the mind, traversing art history, mythology and the cyclical nature of new life and new ideas was shown at the Cooper Gallery, University of Dundee, 30 September - 10 December 2022. At the heart of Chimera are three collaborative films which combine photographic images with musical composition, drawing and painting, skewing the images to form new experiences, which included Our Magnolia (2009) donated to the Hunterian, Glasgow by the Contemporary Art Society and Bear (2019) and another rendering of Lamb (2021).
