Lot 410 - Nazanin Moradi - Cycle of Strength II

Oil on paper
2025
A6 (10x15cm)
Original Artwork
Signed on Verso
Curated by Art on a Postcard

About
Nazanin Moradi is a London-based artist with a Master’s degree in Fine Art from Chelsea College of Art, UAL (2016). Her dynamic career spans continents, with exhibitions in the UK, EU, USA.

As a classically trained painter who also specializes in digital art, body painting and performance art, Moradi explores the profound interplay between the body and its environment. Her work delves into the complex relationship between movement and space, enriched by cultural history, mythology, and memory. Through the abstraction of form and the use of fluid, expressive techniques, she captures the vulnerability and transformation of the human body. Her compositions evoke a sense of dreamlike motion, where figures blend with their surroundings, highlighting the tension between identity and physicality. This fusion creates immersive, emotionally charged works that challenge perceptions of the body in space.

Education
2016
MA Fine Art, Chelsea College of Art, London, UK

Solo Exhibitions
2024
28 Clarendon Road, Watford, UK

2019
King St Studios, Lancaster, UK

2013
SOAS University, London, UK

Group Exhibitions
2024
Black & Global Majority Art Fair, CasildArt Contemporary Gallery, London, UK
Senses, Performance, HDN Mayfair, London, UK
Londoners, Capital Art Gallery, London, UK
Dawn Unveiled, Performance, Folklore Hoxton, London, UK
Olympiada, 6 Charlton Place, London, UK

2023
WomenEmpowerment, Performance, Gustave, London, UK
Art for Relief, charity auction organised by Sothebys in Turkish ambassador’s residency, London, UK

2022
Crossing, V.O Curations, London, UK
Concept, CICA Museum, Gyeonggi, South Korea
The Body Language, Venice, Italy

2021
Circle, 44 Great Russell st, London, UK
Dialogues of Distance, One Paved Court Gallery, London, UK

2020
MKCalling2020, MK Gallery, Milton Keynes, UK
Restless Elements, Re:Centre, London, UK

2019
Flourish Award, West Yorkshire Print Workshop (WYPW), Bristol, Mirfield, Preston, UK
Peace in the Middle East, Asia Movie Festival, Lahore, Pakistan

Statement About AOAP Submitted Artwork
My work explores the body in perpetual motion, using circle and rotation as central themes. Through gestural brushstrokes and muted tones, I depict figures that hover between abstraction and figuration, their forms dissolving and reforming in an endless cycle. The circular motion in each piece suggests fluidity, capturing the body as a vessel of transformation.

The figures, caught in mid-turn, exist in a space where time loops rather than progresses. The rotation of their movements echoes both the physical rhythm of dance and the internal shifts of emotion. Each brushstroke mirrors this energy, creating a dreamlike atmosphere where the boundaries of self and space blur.

By using the motif of the circle, at times resembling a hula hoop, an orbit, or a rippling current, I explore the tension between control and release, presence and absence. The repetition of movement suggests both liberation and entrapment, inviting viewers to consider the cyclical nature of experience. In this way, my paintings are not just about figures in motion but about the sensation of transformation itself.