{{short description|English painter}}
{{Use British English|date=July 2017}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2017}} {{Infobox artist | honorific_prefix = | name = Nahem Shoa | honorific_suffix = | image = Nahem Shoa next to his Giant Portrait of Ben, Hartlepool Art Gallery.jpg
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'''Nahem Shoa''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|n|ɑː|h|ə|m|_|ˈ|ʃ|oʊ|ə}}, born 1968) is a contemporary English painter best known for his series of portraits, collectively called ''Giant Heads'', which were painted at up to 15 times life size. He is also notable for having increased the number of portraits of Black and mixed-race British people on display in British museums. Shoa has won a number of awards and prizes for his work, and serves on The Royal Albert Memorial Museum and Art Gallery's Contemporary Arts Panel. His work has been exhibited in London's National Portrait Gallery and the Royal Academy<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rammuseum.org.uk/web/data/contemporary-art-12-15-mid-term-review-prf4-8.pdf|title=RAMM Contemporary Arts Programme 2012¦2015: Mid-term Review|author=Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery|date=January 2014|page=5|accessdate=9 September 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151003203246/http://www.rammuseum.org.uk/web/data/contemporary-art-12-15-mid-term-review-prf4-8.pdf|archive-date=3 October 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref> as well as at galleries and museums in other parts of the UK.<ref name="Facing"/>
==Early life and education== Nahem Shoa was born to Jewish parents in England in 1968. Showing artistic interest at a young age, Shoa first trained at 16 as an apprentice to the anti-establishment British artist Robert Lenkiewicz.<ref name="Bishop">{{cite web|url=http://www.thecnj.com/review/2007/120607/feat120607_03.html |title=Vagrant Bishop imortalised in paint|work=Camden New Journal | date=2007-12-06 | accessdate=7 September 2015}}</ref> He continued studying under Lenkiewicz at intervals for eight years.<ref name="WMN">{{cite news|last1=Dawson|first1=Katie|title=Lenkiewicz pupil pays an artistic tribute|url=http://nahemshoapaintings.weebly.com/uploads/2/3/3/2/23325548/6886900_orig.jpg|accessdate=1 October 2015|work=Western Morning News|date=31 December 2002}}</ref> Shoa also explored graffiti art as a teenager.<ref name="Facing"/> Soon after graduating from London College of Printing in 1988, Shoa began winning prizes for his work.<ref name="Buckman"/><ref name="Carroll">{{cite web |url=http://www.therp.co.uk/archive/previous-prizes/carroll-foundation-award/ |title=Carroll Foundation Award until 2003 |publisher=Royal Society of Portrait Painters |website=theRP.co.uk |accessdate=7 September 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150729191239/http://www.therp.co.uk/archive/previous-prizes/carroll-foundation-award/ |archive-date=29 July 2015 |df=dmy-all }}</ref><ref name="RAMM"/> Shoa went on to complete a BA in Fine Art at Manchester School of Art in 1991<ref name="Buckman"/> and a Postgraduate at Royal Drawing School in 2004.<ref name="RDS">{{cite web|url=http://royaldrawingschool.org/artists/drawing-year-alumni/nahem-shoa/|title=Nahem Shoa|publisher=The Royal Drawing School| accessdate=7 September 2015}}</ref> From his student days in Manchester, he was determined to be a professional painter.<ref name="nahemshoa1"/>
==Early career== Shoa showed his art in group exhibitions at Manchester City Art Gallery, where he won first prize, in 1989; at Holden Gallery in Manchester, and at Leighton House — for which he won the Lord Leighton Prize — both in 1991; the Summer Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts in 1992; the National Portrait Gallery, also in 1992; at the NatWest-sponsored ''Young Artists of the 90s'' show, for which he again won first prize, in 1995; as part of ''The Sacred Body'' at James Colman Fine Art, in 1996; and at Montpelier Sandelson gallery in 1999.<ref name="Buckman"/>
==''Giant Heads''== thumb|A detail from ''Giant Head of Desiree'', a portrait of a Black British woman Shoa specialised in live-model portraiture until 2007. Unlike many portraitists, he worked with live models rather than reference photographs.<ref name="thejournal1"/><ref name="Facing2"/> His 2004 oil series ''Giant Heads'', featuring British citizens from different ethnic and sexual backgrounds,<ref name="nahemshoa1">{{cite web|url=http://www.nahemshoa.co.uk/about.html |title=About Nahem Shoa: Tangible To In-Tangible. New work by Nahem Shoa|author=Johnstone, Isobel |publisher=Nahem Shoa official website |website=NahemShoa.co.uk|date=June 2015 |accessdate=7 September 2015}}</ref> was exhibited at four major solo shows: Bury Art Gallery and Museum,<ref name="Bury">{{cite web|url=https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/study-of-the-artist-164457 | title=Your Paintings: Uncovering the nation's art collection — About this painting — Study of the Artist — by Nahem Shoa |website=Art UK | accessdate=7 September 2015}}</ref> Coventry's Herbert Art Gallery and Museum,<ref name="Coventry">{{cite web|url=http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Giant-sized+paintings+go+on+show.-a0136636607|title=Giant-sized paintings go on show.|work=Coventry Evening Telegraph|date=2005-09-22|publisher= Archived at TheFreeLibrary.com|accessdate=7 September 2015}}</ref> Hartlepool City Art Gallery,<ref name="thejournal1"/> and Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery.<ref name="BBCBenga">{{cite web|url=https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/g-benga-148009 | title=Your Paintings: Uncovering the nation's art collection — About this painting — G. Benga — by Nahem Shoa |website=Art UK | accessdate=7 September 2015}}</ref> The artist said this series of paintings "aims to capture and celebrate the multicultural nature of our society."<ref name="Coventry"/><ref name="Culture24"/>
One of these works, ''Giant Head of Ben'', was purchased in 2004 by Hartlepool Art Gallery with the assistance of a grant from The Art Fund.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.artfund.org/supporting-museums/art-weve-helped-buy/artwork/9439/giant-head-ben|title=Giant head, Ben by Nahem Shoa|publisher=Art Fund|accessdate=7 September 2015}}</ref>
Shoa's objective behind his four 2004 shows was to rebalance the lack of positive imagery for Black Britishers in UK art galleries.<ref name="Facing"/> He had noted that Black people were portrayed there almost exclusively in the historical context of slavery or servitude,<ref name="Facing"/> and complained that, "in Tate Modern there isn't a single [B]lack image and the same can be said of many major collections".<ref name="thejournal1">{{cite web|last=Whetstone |first=David |url=http://www.thejournal.co.uk/culture/theatre/more-to-shoa-for-it-4652335 |title=More to Shoa for it |work=The Journal |date=2004-04-22 |accessdate=7 September 2015}}</ref> His own culturally-diverse Jewish parentage, stemming from an Adenite Jewish father with "some Ethiopian blood" and a Russian-Scottish mother<ref name="thejournal1"/> — combined with a London upbringing in the multicultural Notting Hill neighborhood notably characterised in the London novels of Colin MacInnes — fostered Shoa's early sensitivity to ethnic, gender and cultural injustices.<ref name="nahemshoa1"/> [[File:Nahem Shoa's portrait of Desmond Haughton.jpg|thumb|left|Shoa's portrait of fellow artist Desmond Haughton on display beside ''Portrait of an African'' at RAMM]] The 2014 donation of ''Desmond'' — a portrait of his Notting Hill childhood pal, the Black British artist Desmond Haughton — to Exeter's Royal Albert Memorial Museum and Art Gallery demonstrated Shoa's ongoing egalitarian commitment.<ref name="Facing"/> A 2015 article by Isobel Johnstone, past curator of the Arts Council Collection,<ref name="RAMM"/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rowleygallery.com/Artist-Isobel-Johnstone.aspx|title=Isobel Johnstone|publisher=The Rowley Gallery|accessdate=9 September 2015}}</ref> discussed the significance of the donation: <blockquote>Portraits of [B]lack subjects are rare in galleries even today and Shoa's picture makes a strong point by its very existence here. Artistically it measures up. It also reveals Shoa's painting skills — strong structure that is the legacy of Cézanne and Cubism, and vibrant colour created from a palette devoid of black and earth pigments. The close-up pose reflects the popular intimacy of today's media. This contemporary portrait of fellow painter Desmond Haughton is a small measure of what Shoa has been best known for to date.<ref name="nahemshoa1"/></blockquote>
''Desmond'' now hangs beside the Exeter gallery's iconic ''Portrait of an African'' — one of the rare 18th-century paintings of a Black gentleman of means.<ref name="Facing">{{cite web|url=https://www.rammuseum.org.uk/news/facing-the-past-black-portraits|title=Facing the past: Black portraits|date=2014-09-01|publisher=RAMM, the Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery| website=RAMMuseum.org.uk| accessdate=7 September 2015}}</ref> ''Portrait of an African'' was formerly believed to be of Olaudah Equiano, and is attributed to Allan Ramsay.<ref name="nahemshoa1"/> Shoa's other portraits of Black Britishers hang in Bury Museum and Art Gallery and Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://artuk.org/search/search/search/keyword:nahem-shoa|title=Nahem Shoa paintings|website=Art UK|accessdate=9 September 2015}}</ref>
==Other works== By 2007, Shoa had established himself as an artist invested in representing British ethnic<ref name="thejournal1"/><ref name=life/> and sexual diversity. Isobel Johnstone, Arts Council's London Collection curator from 1979 to 2004, described Shoa's painting ''Kiki and Helen'' as being "of a lesbian couple one naked the other clothed. The frontal posture of the naked figure echoes Henri Matisse, even Stanley Spencer, but for Shoa a more appropriate comparison would be with Rembrandt's ''The Jewish Bride'' because of the way in which the hands touch."<ref name="nahemshoa1"/> Johnstone also noted, "Shoa's ambition was to make sure his multiculturalism was not the art of outsiders."<ref name="nahemshoa1"/>
A series of massive skull studies<ref>{{cite web|url=http://nahemshoapaintings.weebly.com/skulls.html |title=Nahem Shoa's paintings and drawings of skulls — Skulls life and death |website=NahemShoaPaintings.Weebly.com |accessdate=7 September 2015}}</ref> drew the larger-than-life phase of Shoa's work to a close. Some of his later works included composite imagery of catastrophes, such as floods,<ref name="RDS"/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.saatchiart.com/art/Painting-Sleeper/28790/1362051/view|title=Nahem Shoa, Sleeper|publisher=Saatchi Art|accessdate=9 September 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.saatchiart.com/art/Painting-Mac-Flood/28790/1362044/view|title=Nahem Shoa, Mac Flood|publisher=Saatchi Art|accessdate=9 September 2015}}</ref> nuclear disasters<ref name="RDS"/> and riots.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.saatchiart.com/art/Painting-Dead-Christ/28790/1360208/view|title=Nahem Shoa, Dead Christ|publisher=Saatchi Art|accessdate=9 September 2015}}</ref> Curator Isobel Johnstone described these works thusly: "Most recently Shoa made another dramatic move — from a tangible kind of reality to something quite intangible – where, contrary to all previous methods of working, accident was allowed to prompt imagination."<ref name="nahemshoa1"/>
==Exhibitions in detail: 2004–2014== In 2004, Nahem Shoa had two large-scale, one-man shows in regional art galleries: ''Youth Culture Multi Culture'' at Plymouth City Art Gallery and Museum,<ref name="WMN"/><ref name="BBCBenga"/> and ''Giant Heads & Multi-Culture'' at the Hartlepool Art Gallery.<ref name="thejournal1"/> The exhibition at Plymouth City Gallery included 16 paintings from the "Giant Heads" series, and another 40 large-format portraits, and also included a display of works inspired by Shoa's portraits.<ref name="WMN"/>
In 2005, his solo exhibition ''We Are Here'', at The Herbert, Coventry City Art Gallery, featured giant portraits of ten Black and multiracial models as part of the gallery's observance of Black History Month.<ref name="Coventry"/><ref name="Culture24">{{cite web|url=http://www.culture24.org.uk/history-and-heritage/military-history/world-war-two/art30835 |title=Black History Month 2005 — The Herbert Celebrates | author=Spicer, Graham |website=Culture24.org.uk |date=2005-10-03 |accessdate=7 September 2015}}</ref> These solo shows in 2004 and 2005 broke previous attendance records at each gallery.<ref name="Art in London"/> thumb|A view of nine of the portraits shown as part of ''Facing Yourself'', including a self-portrait and ''Giant Head of Desiree'' (first and second from the right) In 2006, Shoa's work was included in an exhibition he curated at Hartlepool Art Gallery, alongside paintings by Frank Auerbach, Lucian Freud and Robert Lenkiewicz.<ref name=life>{{cite web|work=The Journal |url=http://www.thejournal.co.uk/news/north-east-news/new-realists--commitment-life-4561504 |title=The New Realists — and a commitment to life |date=2006-07-03 |accessdate=7 September 2015}}</ref>
Also in 2006, Shoa had a solo exhibition titled ''Facing Yourself'' at Bury Art Gallery. ''Facing Yourself'' exhibited 25 oil paintings of people of varying ethnic backgrounds, including both Black and mixed-race subjects.<ref name="Facing2"/><ref name="face up">{{cite news|last1=Haynes|first1=Rob|title=Time to face up|work=Metro (British newspaper)|date=15 September 2006}}</ref> The heads were 15 times larger than life, eliciting this reaction from Culture24 art critic Kay Carson: "[D]espite the grandiose scale, the mood is quite the opposite: muted, dignified and very personal."<ref name="Facing2">{{cite web|url=http://www.culture24.org.uk/art/painting-and-drawing/art40509|title=Facing Yourself — Nahem Shoa's Portraits At Bury Museum & Art Gallery|author=Carson, Kay |website=Culture24.org.uk |date=2006-09-22 |accessdate=7 September 2015}}</ref>
In 2007, he featured in the group exhibition ''True To Life'' at the Herbert Art Gallery and Museum,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-159060366.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181115051846/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-159060366.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=2018-11-15|title=Artists portray a desire for realism; Art. (Features)|author=Chamberlain, Julie|date=2007-02-09|work=Coventry Evening Telegraph|publisher= Archived at HighBeam.com|accessdate=7 September 2015}}{{subscription required}}</ref> with his work alongside that of fellow Realist painters Frank Auerbach, David Bomberg, Lucian Freud, and Robert Lenkiewicz.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.robertlenkiewicz.org/content/true-life|author=Lenkiewicz, Robert|title=True to Life|website=RobertLenkiewicz.org|accessdate=9 September 2015}}</ref>
In April and May 2010, Shoa's ''Giant Head of Ben'' was included in ''In Thy Face I See'', a group show at Hartlepool Art Gallery focused on portraiture.<ref>{{cite news|title=Museum displays its finest|url=http://www.sunderlandecho.com/news/local/all-news/museum-displays-its-finest-1-991761|accessdate=1 October 2015|work=Sunderland Echo|date=27 February 2010}}</ref>
In 2013, Shoa contributed drawings for a group exhibition for the House of the Nobleman group exhibition ''Paper Vernacular: Drawings & Constructions'', part of the Cutlog art festival in New York.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.artsy.net/article/houseofthenobleman-paper-vernacular-drawings-and-constructions-at-cutlog|title=Paper Vernacular: Drawings & Constructions @ Cutlog|date=2013-05-04|website=Artsy.net |accessdate=7 September 2015}}</ref>
In April 2014, his ''Giant Head of Ben'' was shown alongside Lucian Freud's ''Head of a Woman'' as part of the exhibition ''Face to Face: Portraits Past and Present'' at Hartlepool Art Gallery.<ref>{{cite press release |last=Heward |first=Julian |date=2014-04-16|url=http://www.noodls.com/view/3861A227CEE9B4D95626CCDF3D832E803AFFBC1A?3595xxx1397676037#sthash.MABzRY7q.dpuf|title=Face to face with portraits past and present|location=Hartlepool |publisher=Hartlepool Borough Council |access-date=7 September 2015}}</ref>
==Reception== ===Critical reception=== thumb|left|Close-up of part of ''Giant Head of Ben'', showing the abstract effect David Whetstone, writing in ''The Journal'', called Shoa's work "extraordinary", characterized him as "approach[ing] the planes and gradients of the face as a landscape painter would an appealing view" and noted his commitment to artistic representation of cultural diversity.<ref name="thejournal1"/>
Critic Rob Haynes of ''Metro'' praised the way Shoa's large-scale portraits "offer the viewer different ways of looking, choosing between the near-abstract effect from close up or the detailed accuracy from a distance."<ref name="face up"/> Haynes also called the works in Shoa's ''Facing Yourself'' show "impressive" and compared Shoa's brushwork to Monet's.<ref name="face up"/> Shoa's style of portraiture has been compared to that of Lucian Freud.<ref name="face up"/>
"Shoa brings to life multi-cultural Britain and its youth culture with technically brilliant painting," ''The Journal''{{'}}s critic said in a later review, and marked Shoa's participation in the New British Realists movement.<ref name=life/>
Culture24 art critic Kay Carson picked out one of Shoa's larger-than-life portraits about which to declare, "[t]he grace of ''Desiree'' (2002) is just breathtaking."<ref name="Facing2"/>
A profile of Shoa and his work, titled "Nahem Shoa: A Superstar in Waiting", appeared in the Autumn 2007 issue of ''Art in London'' magazine; in it, critic Rachel Crow described how if one of Shoa's models "cries or is angry [Shoa] lets that emotion come through in the painting", and said Shoa's "use of colour and texture is powerful and emotional."<ref name="Art in London">{{cite journal|last=Crow|first=Rachel|title=Nahem Shoa: A Superstar in Waiting|journal=Art in London|date=Autumn 2007|pages=50–53}}</ref> She also contrasted how while a Shoa portrait seen up close "appears to be abstract because of the amount of texture and color layered onto the canvas, [... when the viewer steps back] a realist portrait appears with the personality of the sitter emerging".<ref name="Art in London"/> Crow went on to discuss the first of Shoa's skull portraits, noting how Shoa "was able to give it life and personality" and lauding "the sense of depth he was able to create."<ref name="Art in London"/> ''Art in London'' also approved of Shoa's "disciplined work ethic" of eight-hour days, six days per week, with some of his days off devoted to teaching portraiture to other painters.<ref name="Art in London"/>
===Public recognition=== Shoa was listed in both 2002's ''Who's Who in Art'', by Bernard Dolman,<ref name=who>{{cite book|last1=Dolman|first1=Bernard|title=Who's Who in Art, Volume 30|date=2002|publisher=Art Trade Press|isbn=978-0900083198|page=531|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bsRPAAAAMAAJ&q="Nahem+Shoa"|accessdate=1 October 2015}}</ref> and 2007's ''Artists in Britain Since 1945'', by David Buckman.<ref name="Buckman"/>
Hartlepool Art Gallery issued a series of greeting cards featuring art in their collections, including Shoa's ''Giant Head of Ben'', in 2006; the works selected to appear on the cards were voted for by museum visitors.<ref name="greeting card">{{cite news|title=Send your favourite art by post|url=http://www.hartlepoolmail.co.uk/news/local/send-your-favourite-art-by-post-1-1016051|accessdate=2 October 2015|work=Hartlepool Mail|date=15 December 2006}}</ref>
In 2007, ''Giant Head of Ben'' was one of five finalists in a resident vote for which Hartlepool-held artworks should be included in the town's new virtual gallery.<ref name=virtual>{{cite news|title=New way to look at old masters|url=http://www.hartlepoolmail.co.uk/news/local/new-way-to-look-at-old-masters-1-1018400|accessdate=2 October 2015|date=30 March 2007}}</ref>
==Talks and publications== In 1994, some of Shoa's work was published as part of ''Drawing Figures'', an art-instruction text published in association with the Royal Academy of Arts.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Smith|first1=Ray|title=Drawing Figures|date=1 December 1994|publisher=Dorling Kindersley|isbn=978-1564586667|pages=20–21|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lDMRAQAAMAAJ&q="Nahem+Shoa"|accessdate=2 October 2015}}</ref>
Nahem Shoa has given several lectures about his mentor Robert Lenkiewicz, including 2007's "Close reading with Nahem Shoa", at the Novas Gallery,<ref name="Bishop"/> and 2014's "Sound Bites: Robert Lenkiewicz", in conjunction with the Seale-Hayne exhibition, ''Family Matters'', of Lenkiewicz's work.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.discoverhannahs.org/news/current/private-kenkiewicz-collection-to-be-unveiled-at-seale-hayne/|title=Private Lenkiewicz collection to be unveiled at Seale-Hayne|publisher=Dame Hannah Rogers Trust|website=DiscoverHannahs.org|accessdate=7 September 2015}}</ref>
Shoa's essay, "You Offer Me a Dead Rose, May I Give You a Dead Rat?"<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.robertlenkiewicz.org/content/you-offer-me-dead-rose-may-i-give-you-dead-rat|title=You Offer Me a Dead Rose, May I Give You a Dead Rat?|author=Shoa, Nahem|website=RobertLenkiewicz.org|date=2008|accessdate=7 September 2015}}</ref> was included in the book ''Robert Lenkiewicz: Self Portraits 2008''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.robertlenkiewiczpublications.co.uk/pages/booklist.htm|title=Robert Lenkiewicz Publications|website=RobertLenkiewiczPublications.co.uk|accessdate=7 September 2015}}</ref>
The Ben Uri Gallery hosted an exhibition from 26 September–14 December 2008 titled ''Robert Lenkiewicz — The Self-Portraits (1956–2002)'',<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.benuri.org.uk/public/?event-details=7|title=Event Details — Robert Lenkiewiscz — The Self Portraits (1956–2002) — 26th September 2008 – 14th December 2008|publisher=Ben Uri Gallery|accessdate=7 September 2015}}</ref> as a part of which Shoa gave a lecture entitled "Under The Influence".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.robertlenkiewicz.org/sites/default/files/ben_uri_2008_pvinvite_opt.pdf |title=The London Jewish Museum of Art: R.O. Lenkiewicz: Self-Portraits 1956–2002: The First Museum Showing |publisher=Ben Uri Gallery |accessdate=10 September 2015}}</ref>
In 2012, The Royal Albert Memorial Museum and Art Gallery invited Shoa to be a member of their Contemporary Arts Panel, serving as a consultant to RAMM for the promotion of contemporary art exhibitions.<ref name="RAMM">{{cite web|url=http://www.rammuseum.org.uk/getting-involved/exhibiting-at-ramm/contemporary-arts-panel|title=Contemporary Arts Panel |publisher=RAMM, the Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery|website=RAMMuseum.org.uk| accessdate=7 September 2015}}</ref>
In 2014, Shoa gave his lecture "Paradise Found" at Exeter's Royal Albert Memorial Museum and Art Gallery<ref name="Paradise">{{cite web|url=http://www.rammuseum.org.uk/whats-on/evening-lecture-paradise-found|title=Evening Lecture: Paradise Found|publisher=RAMM, the Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery|website=RAMMuseum.org.uk|accessdate=7 September 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140715052023/http://www.rammuseum.org.uk/whats-on/evening-lecture-paradise-found|archive-date=15 July 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref> as part of the exhibition ''Detached and Timeless'',<ref name="Facing"/><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rammuseum.org.uk/exhibitions/detached-and-timeless-contemporary-artists-inspired-by-nature-and-spirit-of-place|title=Detached and Timeless: Contemporary artists inspired by nature and spirit of place|publisher=RAMM, the Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery|website=RAMMuseum.org.uk|accessdate=7 September 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141220211616/http://www.rammuseum.org.uk/exhibitions/detached-and-timeless-contemporary-artists-inspired-by-nature-and-spirit-of-place|archive-date=20 December 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref> which included paintings by David Bomberg, Prunella Clough, Patrick Heron, Peter Lanyon, and Clare Woods. Shoa's lecture explored the various approaches used by these painters to depict the landscape of Britain's southwest.<ref name="Facing"/><ref name="Paradise"/>
Also in 2014, ''Lenkiewicz Reconsidered: Perspectives in Conflict'', to which Shoa contributed, was published by Halsgrove Publishing's Halstar imprint.<ref name=Halstar>{{cite book|last1=Nichols|first1=Keith|title=Lenkiewicz Reconsidered: Perspectives in Conflict|date=2014|publisher=Halstar|isbn=978-1906690366|url=http://www.halsgrove.com/proddetail.php?prod=9781906690366&cat=142|accessdate=2 October 2015}}</ref>
== Awards and prizes == * Manchester City Art Gallery Under 30s Show, first prize, 1989<ref name="Buckman"/> * Lord Leighton Prize, 1991<ref name="Buckman"/><ref name="RAMM"/> * The National Portrait Gallery's BP Portrait Award, 1992<ref name="Buckman"/> * Royal Society of Portrait Painters's Carroll Foundation Award, 1992<ref name="Carroll"/><ref>{{cite book|title=Annual Exhibition 2014|publisher=Royal Society of Portrait Painters|location=London|year=2014|page=19|isbn=978-0-901415-27-1|url=http://www.therp.co.uk/site/media/2015/02/RP-catalogue-2014-1.pdf|accessdate=10 September 2015}}</ref> * Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Award, 1994<ref name="Buckman"/><ref name="RAMM"/> * NatWest Young Artists of the 90s, first prize, 1995<ref name="Buckman">{{cite book|author=Buckman, David|title=Artists in Britain Since 1945|publisher=Sansom|year=2007|isbn=978-0953260959|page=87|url=http://issuu.com/powershift/docs/dictionary_s/87|accessdate=9 September 2015}}</ref>
== See also == *Rowley Gallery
== References == {{reflist|30em}}
== External links == * [http://www.saatchiart.com/account/artworks/28790 View paintings from Shoa's vivid post-portraiture period] * [http://nahemshoapaintings.weebly.com/skulls.html View Shoa's skull studies] * [https://web.archive.org/web/20160314031149/http://artuk.org/discover/artists/shoa-nahem-b-1968 View the paintings ''Giant Head, Ben''; ''G. Benga''; and ''Study of the Artist''] * [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPlY0K23Ti8 View video of Shoa painting Gbenga Ilumoka's giant portrait]
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