Beth Nicholas creates astonishing 8.5m paintings for the Address Downtown Hotel in Dubai
Albany Arts Communications is delighted to announce artist and designer Beth Nicholas’s latest commission – five 8.5-metre-high paintings for the 63-storey Address Downtown hotel in Dubai.
The dramatic artworks, which are executed in Nicholas’s signature style – swirling cosmoses of blues and whites, embellished with startling bursts of gold and silver – are the centrepiece of the newly-refurbished, 220-bedroom hotel, which opened this month (June).
The paintings, which are located in the Address Downtown’s vast lobby, are illuminated from behind, further enhancing their impact. Commissioned in 2017 through the art consultancy Soho Myriad, the paintings took three months to produce. Nicholas visited the hotel to oversee the installation, as she does for all her large-scale commissions.
Evocative equally of oceans and the minerals beneath the earth as they are of aerial
photographs, the paintings are rendered in ink and applied to sheets of paper.
Says Nicholas: ‘The whole project was a huge challenge from start to finish, learning to work at such scale took several months, but I was determined not to let anything leave the studio that I wasn’t happy with.’
Since launching her eponymously-named company, Beth Nicholas Studios, in 2009, Nicholas has worked with a number of leading brands, including the French shoe designer Christian Louboutin, as well as Hilton Hotels & Resorts and Bombay Sapphire Gin. Her paintings, which have won plaudits for their beauty and originality, are created through a unique method which she constantly evolves through trial and experimentation.
For more information: www.beth-nicholas.com
