Nadeem Chughtai

Nadeem Chughtai (b.1973 Epsom, UK)

Lives and works in London

Nadeem Chughtai completed his foundation in fine art at Epsom School of Art and Design before going on to study illustration at Northbrook College, Sussex.

Upon completing his illustration course he decided to explore his passion for film making, eventually gaining work experience within the art department of feature film, The Avengers (1997), where he was introduced to and fell immediately in love with scenic art. This drove Nadeem to seek out an apprenticeship with Steve Mitchell, one of the film industry’s finest scenic artists.

During his time working as an assistant scenic, Nadeem received invaluable training from the hands on experience in colour mixing, light and shadow, perspective, scale and contrast whilst working on the production of realistic scenery backdrops on feature films including The Bourne Supremacy, Alexander, Love Actually and James Bond - Die Another Day.

After five years working and learning as a scenic artist, Nadeem had a yearning to explore his own creativity and in late 2003 moved into his first art studio in Wimbledon, south west London where he soon created a faceless character, the nowhere. Nadeem produced work solely with this character for 16 years until January 2020.

Nadeem has since been working on new work (which can be seen here on Rise Art) and continues painting as his full-time profession, as he has since 2005.