London ( CNN ) -- The tumultuous months since January 2011 have confronted Egyptians with uncertainty , triumph and despair on an almost daily basis . But for one Cairo-based artist , the violence , disruptions and ambiguities of the revolution have also inspired a burst of unprecedented productivity . Cairo , Year One -- Nermine Hammam 's first solo show in the United Kingdom -- contains just a portion of the work she has produced in reckoning with the upheaval reshaping her country . `` Any artist , wherever they are , responds to their surroundings , '' she said . `` It just happens to be that what is happening here is a revolution . '' The year following the revolution saw her produce five different bodies of work -- combining elements of photography and painting -- incorporating images from the 70,000 or so snapshots she has taken of events in Tahrir Square and the surrounding neighborhoods . `` I have never done five bodies of work over such a short period , I do n't think many people have , '' she said . `` I was responding to each and every feeling I was getting , because everything is moving very quickly . One day you think there 's no hope , the next you think there 's a lot . '' See also : Artists reflect Egypt 's revolutionary spirit . Hammam initially went out every day with her camera , `` plunging '' herself into Tahrir to document the turmoil playing out around her : `` The army , the people taking care of the people on the street . '' After that , she said , `` when the police were beating up people in the street , '' she turned to sourcing images of the revolution from the internet . She placed the images incongruously against utopian , postcard scenes from nature -- mountains , flowers and green fields -- or against backdrops modeled on the stylized landscapes of traditional Japanese screens . Her goal with some of the works was to `` conjure harmony '' and hope , she said . Hammam said the momentous events of the revolution were something every Egyptian artist would be drawn to address in their own way , either explicitly or implicitly . `` If other artists have n't yet , they will , '' she said . `` Even if they do n't do it directly , psychologically things will change . '' See also : Young upstarts plotting Mid East art revolution . But she added that it was too early to say whether the revolution would trigger a lasting artistic revival in her homeland . Hammam 's work was censored under the old regime -- `` I took some pictures of the state-run mental asylum and they did n't like that , '' she said -- and she believed it remained to be seen whether there would be greater space in the new Egypt for artistic expression . `` Maybe perhaps now things will be different ; maybe the idea of democracy will allow people to express how they feel , '' she said . `` But for the time being , we have no clue . '' The exhibition runs until August 24 at the Mosaic Rooms , London . Follow the Inside the Middle East team on Twitter . Presenter Rima Maktabi : @ rimamaktabi , producer Jon Jensen : @ jonjensen , producer Schams Elwazer : @ SchamsCNN , writer Tim Hume : @ tim_hume and digital producer Mairi Mackay : @ mairicnn .
Egyptian visual artist Nermine Ali is having her first solo show in the square . She says Egypt 's revolution has made her extraordinarily productive . She has taken more than 70,000 photographs of people in the Square for her work . It remains to be seen whether there will be an artistic revival in the new Egypt , she says .