25 May – 28 June
Riverside Gallery
Daily 12noon – 9pm
Free
Algerian-born artist Houria Niati sees her work as ‘a visual explosion of the mind, an interaction of ideas in space and time’. Houria specialised in community arts in Algeria before arriving in London in 1977 where she studied drawing and printmaking at Camden Art Centre and Fine Art at Croydon College of Art and Design.

Her work, mainly in oil paintings and pastels, reflects her rich inherited background and her struggle to come to terms with the dichotomy between eastern and western identities. Her cultural background consists of strong Arab-Muslim influences from her family and her experiences growing during the French occupation. She attended French schools in Algeria and she was only 6 years old when she witnessed the first bomb that marked the beginning of the 7 years war against French occupation. Her paintings and multimedia installations therefore have a truly international feel as they bring all the influences together

Houria began to exhibit her work in 1983 in London: her work has been shown in many touring exhibitions including UK and USA. She is recognised as one of the most important Artists emerging from North Africa and probably was the first new-contemporary Algerian Woman Artist who ever exhibited in UK.

There will be a Private View with the artist in attendance on Thursday 26 May 6-30 – 8.30pm