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Rosalind Nashashibi and Lucy Skaer are artists with international solo careers, but they also collaborate as Nashashibi/Skaer. This talk presents a rare opportunity to hear them discuss both their individual and collaborative practices.

Rosalind Nashashibi, born in 1973, is a British artist of Palestinian and Northern Irish decent based in Liverpool. She works in sculpture, painting and photography, but is best known for her 16mm films. Rosalind studied Fine Art at Sheffield Hallam University (1992) and has an MFA from the Glasgow School of Art (2000). In 2003 she was the first woman to win the Becks Futures Prize and in 2014 she received a Paul Hamlyn Award for Artists. Her new film Electrical Gaza is currently showing at the  Imperial War Museum, London and her work is in the Tate collection.

Lucy Skaer, born in Cambridge in 1975, is a British artist based in Glasgow. Using a range of media, including sculpture, film, painting and drawing, her work engages with a number of disciplines and themes, merging abstraction and representation and investigating architecture and material. Lucy completed a BA in Fine Art at Glasgow School of Art in 1997. She was shortlisted for the Becks Futures Prize in 2003 and nominated for the Turner Prize in 2009. Her work is also in the Tate collection. 

Nashashibi/Skaer are currently curating an exhibition in collaboration with Tate St Ives for October 2016, which will feature a series of short films made collaboratively between 2005 and 2009. At the centre of the exhibition is a newly commissioned film, titled Why Are You Angry. The duo travelled to Tahiti to make filmic representations of women, after Paul Gauguin's voyages to the South Pacific. Visions of the tropics by Gauguin and his predecessors will also be included alongside works from the Tate collection – by artists including Henri Matisse and Paul Nash – that relate to Nashashibi/Skaer’s earlier film works.

Tate Talk held in conjunction with