Filwa Nazer (born 1972, Swansea, UK), lives and works between London and Jeddah
Filwa Nazer is a Saudi artist whose abstract textile works, collages, and drawings merge techniques and materials from the fields of the visual arts, fashion, and architecture. Her explorations of women’s lives in the context of Saudi Arabia give visual and spatial form to emotions, personal stories, and collective memories. After graduating from the Marangoni School of Fashion and Design in Milan, Nazer attended classes offered by the pioneering Saudi painter Safeya Binzagr, who had turned her home in Jeddah into an art gallery, library, and school for other women artists in the early 1990s. Nazer has shown her work in a number of major international exhibitions, such as the Middle East Institute, US (2023), the 16th Lyon Biennale, France (2022-23), and the Sharjah Art Foundation, UAE (2019).