Nour el Saleh (b. 1997, Lebanon) lives and works in London.  She completed her postgraduate degree from The Royal Drawing School in 2022 after receiving a BFA at the Slade School of Fine Art in 2019. Her works explore notions of place, belonging and selective/relative memory. Working instinctively, without creating studies, bodies; animal and humanoid, appear on the surface, where they indiscriminately meld into each other and are inseparable from the land they inhabit. El Saleh’s paintings enable her to consider the existence of a hypothetical ecosystem where skin is translucent and the ground is in a cycle of renewal. Through this, she interacts with the denizens of her selective conscious while utilizing paint  to access abject fantasy worlds which can be invasively personal for both the viewer and the artist.