Naomi Azoulay

Naomi Azoulay
Auckland, New Zealand

STATEMENT

I create paper collages on wood panels. My process starts with selecting high-quality art prints, cutting them out, arranging and glueing them onto a wood panel. I create detailed and colourful portraits. My work explores inspiring public figures, quotes from well-known art and my own photographed subjects.

I’m deeply influenced by women who have challenged the status quo; changemakers who have accomplished inspiring achievements. I like to give them the spotlight they deserve and to provoke conversations about feminism and female empowerment.

I aspire for beauty, harmony and balance to convey a nourishing aesthetic pleasure. Working with other artists’ art as my palette enables me to connect deeply with the art that I love while finding my own visual voice in the process. In other words, I express myself through colour, pattern and texture by quoting art that is meaningful to me.

BIO

Naomi is a Middle-Eastern-born, New Zealand-based artist. Her current work is a series of vibrant and detailed collage portraits, interlacing layers of references from a wide spectrum of art genres and eras. She is passionate about exploring the female gaze and probing traditional gender roles.

Naomi holds a degree in Art History and is a self-taught artist. She has been involved in creative education for many years, currently running collage workshops and events in the community. In 2015, she received an award for her self-portrait Dona Nobis Pacem and in 2020, held a solo exhibition, “Women of Valour”, at Studio One Toi Tu, Ponsonby, Auckland, New Zealand.

ARTIST CONTACT

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