Issi Nash Exhibitions and Events

Issi Nash explores how architectural space can act as a vessel for psychological reflection, memory, and emotional resonance.

Working in egg tempera and gold leaf, Nash engages with the material and visual languages of early Sienese painting. Her recent series transcribes and transforms medieval architectural spaces by removing their religious narratives. This act transforms structures loaded with historical belief into reflective, ambiguous worlds — stage-like sets haunted by the absence of their former stories. Nash invites us into these spaces of possibility, offering them as metaphors for personal and cultural reframing.

Nash studied Fine Art at Arts University Bournemouth (BA, 2008), followed by further training at the Essential School of Painting, London (2020), and Contemporary Art Academy (2023).

Her practice investigates how inherited structures of thought — particularly those shaped by religious or cultural narratives — continue to influence emotional and psychological experience. Nash’s work explores parallels between medieval and digital image cultures, themes of absence and presence, and the imprint of personal history on architectural forms. Her approach combines historical processes with contemporary inquiry, positioning painting as a reflective space where past and present intersect.