Nina Mae Fowler (b.1981) is a British artist living and working in Norfolk.  Fowler graduated in Fine Art sculpture from Brighton University in 2003 and since has been shortlisted for numerous prizes and awards, including the Jerwood Drawing Prize (2010 and 2015) and The Discerning Eye Drawing Bursary Award (2016).  Her works have been exhibited within the context of cultural institutions and museums including Kunstsaele, Berlin and The National Portrait Gallery, London.

Known for her sumptuously detailed drawing practice - as well as sculpture and installation, Nina Mae Fowler’s work interrogates themes of celebrity, beauty, power and sexuality.  Preoccupied with our relationship to the cinema and the power of the cinematic image, Fowler's work restlessly investigates the often devastating effects of fame, focusing on the impossible spotlight and perilous underbelly of the Hollywood machine.

Drawing from a range of source material including film stills, documentary footage, historical paparazzi and entertainment photography, Fowler’s investigation of the interplay between tragedy and beauty emerges from intricate archival research. Her drawings are weighted by tensions surrounding ridicule, self-sabotage, compulsion, victimisation, emotional and physical vulnerability, exploitation, excess and abuse, played out in complex ways and in different combinations through the prism of the camera lens and the cinema screen.