Nour Hage is an award-winning Lebanese-British artist. Her practice is centered on the exploration of West Asian identities, culture, history & storytelling with a particular focus on the role of women, the supernatural and mental wellbeing.

She was the inaugural Jameel Fellow at the V&A Museum in 2021-22 and was awarded the Boghossian Foundation Prize in 2014. She graduated from Parsons School of Design (Paris) with a BFA in Fashion Design.

Her work is part of the permanent collections at the V&A museum and the Leighton House museum (Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, London).

She has exhibited at Dr Johnson’s House (London), The Albany/Haramacy Residency (London), Nowhere (NYC), Foundation (digital), Alserkal Avenue (Dubai), Leighton House (London), exhibited with AD Middle East (Abu Dhabi), Friends ArtSpace (Arlington, Virginia), Design Miami (Miami) and Maraya Art Center (Sharjah).

ARTIST STATEMENT

My work is rooted in an exploration of identities and cultures from West Asia, using textiles as a form of artistic expression.

I place emphasis on manual labour - in the form of hand-dyeing, embroidery and weaving. The process references generations of women’s manual labour that has gone into the making of textiles and the notions and processes that are inherited through matrilineal transmission of memory. My physical pieces are medium to large-scale and invite the viewer to spend time considering their construction and role as a bridge between generations and regions.

Throughout my work, I introduce elements of supernatural and superstitious protection in the form of traditional materials, colours or techniques from the Levant that have been historically used for that purpose.