Noor Elshaer is a Syrian artist born and raised in the occupied Golan Heights. She began studying art at a young age at Fateh Almudarres Art Center in Majdal Shams. Growing up within the Druze community, Elshaer developed an early awareness of identity, belonging, and displacement.
Her practice centers on themes of absence, homeland, and longing, exploring emotional and psychological states using drawing as a primary mode of expression. Her work reflects an ongoing inquiry into personal existence and broader questions of humanity.
The experience of motherhood, eight years ago, marked a turning point in her practice, introducing new layers of vulnerability, anxiety, and reflection. The maternal figures in her work function as symbolic embodiments of care, fear, responsibility, and transformation.