About
From my London studio, I produce paintings, prints, fabrics and short animated films. I also undertake the production of many bespoke items from murals to screens and printed fabrics.
Fascinated by natural patterns and the intertwining of abstract and figurative, I create scenes from memory and imagination, engaging with the absurd and humorous as well as the subconscious. My work has been described as 'Hermes on Acid', perhaps for it's surreal quality.
I studied Fine Art at Camberwell School of Art and fashion fabric design at London Central St Martin’s School of Art in its 1980s heyday before moving to New York City where I began to work as a freelance artist and designer.
My paintings, murals and fabric prints...
are in various private and public collections in the US and UK. I have created works for the Metropolitan Opera House, NYC; the Chicago Lyric Opera, the San Francisco Opera, BMG Sony Classics, NYC and Berlin, Absolut Vodka, Delta Airlines, the Reception Rooms at the United States Department of State, the Pierre Hotel, the Guggenheim Museum, Neiman Marcus, Liberty of London, and Artisan Publishing House, NYC among others. I draw every year for the Met Opera, creating prints inspired by their musical productions.


My hand drawn Animations...
have been screened at film festivals around the world, winning awards along the way. I've created animated backdrops to opera, musicals and live stage performances, and been commissioned to create animations for HBO TV, PBS TV, Sesame Street and by Publicis advertising agency.
My animated backdrops for the plays 'Drowning Crow' at the Manhattan Theatre Club and the musical 'Grey Gardens', were both realised on Broadway. My animations formed the live backdrops for the comic opera 'Naked Revolution' at the Guthrie Theatre Lab commissioned by the Walker Art Foundation in Minneapolis. I created an animated 'opera in a box' at The Kitchen, NYC. My animations have been projected with live musical performances at Le Poisson Rouge and City Winery NYC. I've animated and directed several short films for HBO TV and for Sesame Street and created animated sequences for the documentary film In Glorious Smell-O-Vision. I have animated three highly successful national TV commercials staring 50's Hollywood movie stars as vegetables for Publicis Advertising Agency in Dallas and GlaxoSmithKline. My award winning animated film 'Serenade' was purchased by MOMA for the picture library film collection at Lincoln Center for performing arts.


Awards include...
The Tom Phillips Drawing Prize
First prize Asifa East Charles Samu Award for animation
Black Maria Directors Choice Award
Ann Arbor Film Festival Audience Prize
Best single subject cookbook for the USA category-Gourmand awards- Granita Magic which she wrote and illustrated as a testament to the marriage of food and art.
After living and working in New York City, in 2020 I moved my studio to London, although I often travel for projects.
Nadia's silkscreen print 'Balancing Act' at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2024
All images © Nadia Roden. No reproduction permitted without written permission.
