AMIRA NGUYEN-HASOON

Amira Nguyen-Hasoon is a British-Iraqi multidisciplinary artist whose practice explores perception, attention and our relationship with the environments we inhabit. She holds a BA (Hons) in Drawing for Fine Art Practice from the University of Oxford and a BSc (Hons) in Social Psychology from The Open University. She has completed artist residencies throughout the United Kingdom and the United States.

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Her work begins with observation. Drawing is not simply a means of representation, but a way of investigating, understanding and engaging with the world around her. Whether working through slow, highly detailed drawings or more experimental processes using found materials and natural pigments, Nguyen-Hasoon is interested in how sustained attention shapes our experience of place. 

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 Influenced by ideas of perception and cognition, her practice considers how our understanding of the world is filtered through individual experience. Rather than seeking objective representations, her work acknowledges that every act of looking is shaped by memory, knowledge and lived experience. The resulting works become records of both the subject observed and the encounter itself.

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Working across traditional and experimental media, Nguyen-Hasoon explores themes of permanence, transience and ecological connection. Through drawing, material exploration and process, she examines the subtle relationships between people and their environments, inviting viewers to slow down, look closely and reconsider the familiar.

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