Page 12 - VOL 8

Saecred Solitude

Nicole Dobrila Chabala, born 12 February 2003 in Macedonia is a 21-year-old artist from Zambia currently
based in Hatfield, UK. Chabala spent her life around the world, living and schooling in places such as Syria,
Kosovo, Zambia etc. she finished her high school in Uganda at Galaxy International School of Uganda where
she then moved to the UK to study fine art at the University of Hertfordshire. During that time she showed her
work at shows along with her classmates through group shows both in the school gallery and external galleries
such as Courtyard Arts and Free Range, all of which she took on curatorial roles. She graduated upper second
class with a bachelors in Fine Art in September of 2024 and is now establishing her creative career.

‘’My foundation in my Christian faith and experience as a black Zambian woman of the African Diaspora greatly premises
and stands as a foundation for her work. My current works engage with conceptions of the “invisible”, from influences that
alter and determine human behaviour and self-actualisation, gravity to trauma, to even groups of people who may be
unseen and treated as such.
My intention is to bring the unseen and unseeable to people’s attention, to create vessels and “portals''. Where the two
seemingly polarised worlds are able to meet, communicating emotions, thoughts and intellect beyond the verbal medium,
granting new perspectives and creating starting points for people to have conversations about these things amongst
themselves and with others.’’

12 Hangers’ souls-2 - Digital media, 118.9x84.1cm, 2024