Nina Fowler was born in 1981 in the UK and graduated with a degree in Fine Art from Brighton University. In 2008, she was nominated for the BP Portrait Award and participated in shows at the National Portrait Gallery and exhibitions throughout Europe. Fowler’s works play with Hollywood’s golden age of glamour, exploring the gap between fantasy and reality, the impossible yearnings that exist between the icon and the fanatic, bought closer through the humble medium of pencil and graphite. She takes celluloid icons of Hollywood, frozen in a still and reproduces the image meticulously in pencil and graphite, instilling within them a troubling quality by injecting fragility and glamour.

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