About
I am an artist, author, and world-builder working across moving image, graphic novels, writing, and performance.
I build narrative worlds to give form to lived experience, especially where memory, migration, fragility, and relation ask for languages that can hold complexity.
Each project begins with the search for the form it needs, whether that becomes a film, a book, a performance, or a wider story-world.
Artistic Practice
Nadia’s work grows through encounters with places, communities, memories, and lived realities that are gathered, transformed, and reassembled into layered narrative worlds.
Her practice moves between moving image, graphic novels, writing, and performance, bringing together documentary attention, poetic language, symbolic form, and storytelling. Landscape, migration, memory, and intercultural experience run through this work as lived and political realities, while worldbuilding allows them to take shape through metaphor, myth, and narrative structure.
Across different media, Nadia develops artistic forms that connect observation, imagination, and emotional truth within the same universe.
Photo by Michi Masumi
Practice Areas
Moving Image
Graphic Novels
Writing
Performance
Artist film, visual poetry, artist documentary, and video art through which I explore memory, migration, embodied experience, and the relation between landscape, sound, and lived histories.
Long-form narrative work shaped through worldbuilding, drawing, and visual storytelling, where memory, disorientation, emotional transformation, and symbolic space unfold across evolving story-worlds.
Writing is an integral part of my practice, spanning poetry, essays, artist books, sound drama, and short-form narrative. Across these forms, I use language to carry memory, process, voice, and storytelling in ways that move between the reflective, the experimental, and the deeply personal.
My performance practice takes the form of musical storytelling, combining live voice, poetry, character, and audience interaction. It is built around seven storyteller figures, each with a distinct personality and their own stories and songs.
Biography
Nadia began her professional artistic practice in 2006 in Italy, first through painting and portraiture, creating images of people from the local African migrant community in the Verona area as a way of giving visibility to lives and presences often pushed to the margins. From there, her work moved into photography and quickly into video art, the medium through which she first found a strong artistic language and entered national and international contemporary art contexts.
After moving to the UK in 2008, Nadia’s practice developed further through artist documentary, installation, and experimental moving image. Working closely with vulnerable communities and with themes of migration, memory, landscape, and belonging, she began to build a more layered film language shaped by lived experience and long-form visual storytelling. This period marked a shift from early video art towards more complex moving image works rooted in poetic, essayistic, and community-connected forms.
A period of serious illness reshaped Nadia’s practice and opened it into new narrative forms, including graphic novels, musical storytelling, writing, and performance. From this passage emerged Murphy’s Adventures, as part of a wider worldbuilding practice that continues to evolve across media.
Today, Nadia works across moving image, graphic novels, writing, and performance, choosing the form each story asks for while remaining grounded in an ethics of proximity, exchange, and imaginative mediation. This approach also extends into House of Stars, the UK-based creative platform she founded to support storytelling, mentoring, and collaborative artistic work with young people and emerging creatives.
Through this strand of her practice, authored work and community engagement continue to inform one another.