Yonat Nitzan-Green

She was born and lived in Israel, then immigrated to Britain where she built her family. She completed a doctorate, entitled: ‘Saying it through the body: Understanding maternal subjectivity through art practice’ at Southampton University Winchester School of Art (2010). Co-founder of the Phenomenology and Imagination Research Group (PIRG) (2013 – 2023) where the Table Method (tm) has been developed. She worked as a Research Consultant at the Chapel Art Studios (CAS) and led the CAS drawing research group (2017-2019). Currently she is taking a 2nd practice-led PhD, entitled: ‘The entanglement of maternal subjectivity and pregnancy in its intersection with immigrant mothering’ at Loughborough University supervised by Professor Hilary Robinson and Dr Deborah Harty. 

Artist Statement

Yonat Nitzan-Green has been working with graphite powder for over two decades. She is interested in dispersion and tactility as material qualities in their entanglement with memory and embodied knowledge. Her drawings relate to the pregnant body, maternal subjectivity, and cultural-historic events, particularly those of early childhood, that leave their marks consciously and unconsciously on the subject. While memory may seem to be located in the past, the action of drawing enables accessing embodied knowledge located in the body of the artist; the body of and in action. For her, drawing is a journey that involves imagination, feelings, thinking and dreaming with matter.