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Born and raised in Australia, Andrea Nassar moved to Beirut to pursue a degree in Graphic Design from the American University of Beirut. After over 15 years of working in corporate and print design, she returned to her passion of creating objects.

Training under Australian-Lebanese ceramicist, Neville Salha, ignited her interest in ceramics, which led her to further explore the craft in Sydney and Thessaloniki, before returning to Lebanon, where she opened her studio practice full time in 2018. Her work is a reflection of a life lived between two contrasting cultures on opposite ends of the globe, represented through a dialogue between the wide open spaces of Australia and the dense layering of natural and urban landscapes in Lebanon.

Her latest collection, Rise and Fall, draws inspiration from the remains of the Roman aqueducts in Sour (Tyre), where centuries of human use and natural rainfall have not merely weathered the sites solid walls and arches, instead the water both adds and subtracts, accumulating impressive calcification deposits while simultaneously undermining the stone works structural identity. By challenging the clay, slowly building up layer upon layer until the limit, Rise and Fall pays homage to Lebanon’s rich ancient past, and aims to immortalise the condition in which we witness these ruins, echoing the life of these ancient structures sculpted by man and withered by nature.

Andrea’s work has been exhibited in Beirut and Milan.