Elnara Nasirli

Coming from an environmental technology background, artist Elnara Nasirli finds inspiration in biotechnology and mixed media. She creates biomorphic worlds through the use of unconventional materials in painting, sculpture, collage and installation. This visual language based on biomorphic shapes comes from the Greek words ‘bios’, meaning life, and ‘morphe’, meaning form.

A great part of her work are tondi, circular pieces, as the circle is a continuous line with no beginning, end, corners or divisions. The circle represents the life-force or spirit that keeps our reality in motion, eternal rebirth. The artist makes a great emphasis on the process of art, and the concepts of change and transience, in particular in the Mycelium installation (2022) which envelops the room into a cocoon over time.

2005
Certificate in Expressive Painting
Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design,
London
2007
Certificate in Art Criticism
Certificate in Art History
Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design,
London
2008
Certificate in Life Painting
Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design,
London
2012
Certification in Art Clay Level II
Silver Jewelry Intensive
London School of Jewelry, London
2012
Certificate in Diamond Essentials Certificate in Jewelry
Essentials Certificate in Colored Stone Essentials
Gemological Institute of America (GIA), London
2012
Certificate in Experimental Jewelry
Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design,
London
2012
History of Art - Entering the Van Cleef & Arpels Universe
History of Art – Art Nouveau: 20 years of Freedom
Le Savoir Faire – Uniqueness and Team Craftmanship
L'École Van Cleef & Arpels, Paris

2004
Personal exhibition, Baku, Azerbaijan (oil painting)
2005
Joint exhibition at charity event, Baku, Azerbaijan
( Bronze sculpture)
2006
Personal exhibition, TISA school, Baku, Azerbaijan
(mixed media)
2022
Personal Exhibition:
Biomorphic Explorations: Electric Dreams
Landmark Baku 25th February - 2 April