Artist
Nazir Tanbouli
Title
Dancer
Year
2017
Medium
Acrylic on canvas
Dimensions
100 × 100 cm

Dancer, 2017

Courtesy of the artist

● Artist

Nazir Tanbouli

Nazir Tanbouli is an Egyptian artist based in Cairo. After studying art and design at the School of Fine Art, Alexandria University, Egypt, between 1989-1994, Tanbouli worked on many projects as a painter, muralist, illustrator and graphic designer, before moving to the UK in 2002. Tanbouli studied book art and printmaking in 2010 at Camberwell College of Art,  University of the Arts London (UAL) and was awarded an MFA. Tanbouli’s work is narrative, biographical, communicative, and often humorous. Both characters and places in his work are a dream-like rendering of all the people he knows and all the places he travelled to, yet his works often contain global themes and symbols which make them both non-culturally specific and widely appealing.

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Gratus Collection

The Gratus Collection is Egypt and Dubai based. It retraces highlights of Egypt’s modern history through to the contemporary era. Featuring works from leading pioneers such as Mahmoud Said and Hamed Abdalla to later figures such as Chant Avedissian - the collection serves as a unique repository for the progression of Egyptian art from the 20th century into the 21st.