MARIEM ABUTALEB
Mariem Abutaleb is a lettering artist and graphic designer who is based in Cairo, Egypt. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design from AUC, the American University in Cairo.
Mariem believes in the power of writing, and documentation as a visual language in delivering messages. Therefore, her work crystallizes the Arabic lettering as a strong expressive tool. Mariem’s main motivation is the experimentation of the Arabic script alongside creating harmonious compositions out of it. She applies her designs on different mediums, one of which is fabric. Her work got invited to participate in various international, and local exhibitions in New York, United States, Belgium, Germany, Greece, Qatar, Abu Dhabi, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, etc.
EXHIBITIONS
2024 Cairo International Art District by Art D’Egypte, Egypt
2024 Summer Exhibition at Picasso art gallery, Egypt
2024 Pattern Recognition Exhibition at Medrar, Egypt
2024 Art by the sea by Art D’Egypte in Greece
2024 Empower Her Art Forum by Artoday. The exhibition took place at the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization NMEC
2024 We, The Nations of Letters, at Wasl Art Space, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
2024 Tadween Exhibition at Le Lab Gallery, Egypt
2024 Tasmeem Doha Biennale at VCUarts, Qatar
2024 Bridging Cairo & New York at Saphira Ventura Gallery, New York, USA
2024 Inner Structures - Outer Rhythms at Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany
2024 A Duo Exhibition at Medrar, Egypt
2023 CIAD Cairo International Art District by Art D’ Egypte
2023 Maktoub Exhibition at Shelter Art Space, Egypt
2023 Empower Her Art Forum by Artoday. The exhibition took place at the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization NMEC
2023 Hundred best Arabic posters Exhibition at Gallery 421, Abu Dhabi, UAE + TER DILFT, Alula, Kuwait, Alexandria
2023 Blog Exhibition by Access Art Space, Egypt
2022 Écrire et Conter exhibition by l’Institut français d’archéologie orientale et l’Institut français d’Egypte
2022 10th international biennale for the artist’s book. Organized by Bibliotheca Alexandrina at Alexandria, Egypt.
2022 EKINOS International online Group Exhibition. Organized by Istanbul Haliç University Faculty, Graphic Design Department
2022 Tasmeem Doha: Radical Futures. Art & Design Biennial at Qatar
2022 Agenda Exhibition at Bibliotheca Alexandrina at Alexandria, Egypt
2021 YSA Exhibition by Athr art gallery at Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
2021 Art Junction Exhibition by Middle East Art & Design, Cairo, Egypt
2021 Inner Structures / Outer Rhythms. Contemporary Arab & Persian Graphic Design at the Minneapolis School of Art and Design (MCAD), USA
2021 Cairo Prints Exhibition by Cairopolitan, Egypt
2021 Hundred best Arabic posters Exhibition at Gallery 421, Abu Dhabi, UAE + TER DILFT, Bornem, Belgium +Tahiri Cultural Center, Cairo, Egypt
2020 Future Design and Design Future, Sharjah Art Gallery, The American University in Cairo, Egypt
2019 Exhibition at Sharjah Art Gallery, The American University in Cairo, Egypt
2019 Open Studio, Sharjah Art Gallery, The American University in Cairo, Egypt
2018 Open Studio, Sharjah Art Gallery, The American University in Cairo, Egypt
Abstract Writings | Ink on Fabric | 2024 | 87 X 500cm | KD 850
Lettering Patterns - Letters & their connections | Ink on Fabric | 2023 | 30 X 450cm (KD 450 each) | 60 x 400cm (KD800 each)
WILLIAM KINGSWOOD
Composer, artist and film-maker William Kingswood was born in London in 1972. He began composing music at an early age, later pursuing studies at Goldsmiths College and New York University, where he subsequently taught as an adjunct professor. During his time in New York in the late 1990’s, Kingswood immersed himself in the Downtown music and art scene, founding the post-Fluxus experimental collective, AktionSphere!, putting on regular ‘happenings’, which simultaneously combined various disparate activities in a single performance.
Since the 2000’s, Kingswood has split his time between New York City, Los Angeles, London, and Madrid. His music has been performed in the UK, the US, including the premiere of his piece Nunc Dimittis at The Tanglewood Festival, and Spain, including a premiere of his piece Fernweh, performed by Rosa Torres-Pardo at the Auditorio Nacional de Música in Madrid. He has collaborated with the poet Luís García Montero, the flamenco singer Arcángel, the artist and sculptor Tobias Putrih, and the director Teresa Sendagorta.
His 2019 film, Ser Español received special selection at the Barcelona, Madrid, and Valencia Indie Film Festivals as well as the Paraná International Film Festival. His performance piece, Exculpatio: Ergo Nihilum, was performed at the 2022 Venice Biennale.
Gaza(4)
(Bank of England sealing wax and ink on Khadi paper)
In October of 2023, after Israel had begun their offensive in Gaza, I made four walks. Each would be determined only by their length: exactly 41 kilometres (25 miles), the equivalent distance from Al Qarya Al Suwaidiah -nicknamed Al Qarya ‘Al Manseyya’ (‘the forgotten’)- in the South, to Al Siafa in the North of Gaza. Each walk would be undertaken on a single day every fourteen days and would start from the same point. The lines on each panel are traced from my trajectory on the Ordnance Survey Map; printed at the top of each panel is the number of dead in Gaza on the day that I made each walk.[1]
Sealing wax has traditionally been used to create a seal on communications, certificates and awards, which would then be embossed with an official stamp or the coat of arms of a noble family. Here, the wax is melted with a flame so that it may be dripped and dragged, in a quiet act of violence, onto the page. The result, in this context, far from the polite gentility of a decorative seal, or an opulent projection of power, can instead be seen to conjure lines of congealed blood on a scar. The printed number is coldly detached, objective and dehumanizing; data reflecting what is often characterized in a rhetorical abdication of humanity as collateral damage. As Albert Camus wrote in La Peste: “...a hundred million corpses broadcast through history are no more than a puff of smoke in the imagination.” Yet simultaneously, these numbers, when viewed alongside each other, can create a visceral dissonance when their abstraction rubs up against the shocking realization of what their growth represents.
These four panels are the result of an activity, performed in reaction to a series of events. As such, the role of the artist here is a necessary part of a process in a gathering together or harvesting of phenomena, rather than as the lone creator at the centre of an act of self-expression. This thereby brings into question ideas of authorship, identity and ownership. Of crucial importance to me in this work is that it can be viewed not only in relation to its symbolic narrative or ‘programme’, but also as a decontextualised presentation of ‘matter’, meaning nothing but itself
-William Kingswood.
[1] Numbers taken from aljezeera.com
3300 | Bank of England sealing wax and ink on Khadi paper | 2024 | 32 x 41cm (framed) | KD 950 (set of 4) (SOLD)
8525 | Bank of England sealing wax and ink on Khadi paper | 2024 | 32 x 41cm (framed) | KD 950 (set of 4) (SOLD)
11300 | Bank of England sealing wax and ink on Khadi paper | 2024 | 32 x 41cm (framed) | KD 950 (set of 4) (SOLD)
14800 | Bank of England sealing wax and ink on Khadi paper | 2024 | 32 x 41cm (framed) | KD 950 (set of 4) (SOLD)
LOUMA RABAH
Louma Rabah, Born in Lebanon in 1980, graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts and Graphic Design from the Lebanese American University (LAU) in 2004. Known for her strong combination of colours in her landscape and still life works, Rabah depicts nature in all its glory. Her canvasses exude vibrancy with every expressive brush stroke.
Louma Rabah has been active in the Beirut art scene since 2012, where she is considered a pillar of the community due to her philanthropy and her support of other artists.
Rabah has sold over 500 paintings in the last 7 years.
EXHIBITIONS
BEIRUT
2012 Alwan Gallery Odile Mazloum
2014 Artspace
2014 Joanna Seikaly Art Gallery
2014 Sheikh Zayed Hall, LAU
2015 Artscoop Auction
2016 Grand Serail
2019 Art Scene
2021 Dessine moi un cedre
2022 Mojo Art Gallery
2023 Upcycled tree art (Dar el Nimer)
PARIS
2015 Office du Tourisme
2017 Carousel du Louvre
DUBAI
2014 Ayyam Gallery Auction
2015 Noon Art Gallery
2020 Secret Art Dubai
2022 Belvedere Art Gallery DIFC
2023 Urbanist Art Gallery
2024 Khawla Art Gallery
Amman
2012 Al Bandaak Art Gallery
Venice
Loretta Larkina Art Gallery
Flowers From my Brothers Farm | Oil on Canvas | 2024 | 100 x 90cm | KD 1,150
Untitled | Oil on Canvas | 2020 | 100 x 200cm | KD 2,200
Happy Souls | Oil on Canvas | 2023 | 140 x 95cm | KD 1,500
Reflections | Oil on Canvas | 2024 | 180 x 160cm | KD 3,100
Spring Rain | Oil on Canvas | 2023 | 150 x 100cm | KD 1,600
Untitled | Oil on Canvas | 2023 | 120 x 100cm | KD 1,300
GEORGE BASSIL
George Bassil, Born in Beirut, Lebanon in 1965, is a self-taught artist who began his career in 1995. Throughout his life, Bassil has been creating art through different forms but he finally focused his attention on painting. As a self-taught artist, Bassil has relied on his emotions and his inspirations to guide his works.
Bassil’s art tends to highlight human figures, with a focus on the female form and its emotions. He engages the human soul in a discourse though his use of transparency and his light use of pigments, which allows him to express elements of transience and a connection with his audience. In a world that grows increasingly zealous, Bassil recreates his visions on warm fabrics with figurers that are indifferent to the stares and scrutiny of viewers, existing in their own world, lost in their thoughts and feeling; without judgment, their existence.
GB 2 | Acrylic on Canvas | 2024 | 90 x 125cm | KD 2,100
GB 1 | Acrylic on Canvas | 2024 | 105 x 165cm | KD 2,500
GB 5 | Acrylic on Canvas | 2024 | 118 x 190cm | KD 2,900
GB 3 | Acrylic on Canvas | 2024 | 120 x 170cm | KD 2,900
ADLANE SAMET
Adlane Samet, born in Algeria in 1989, is an expressionist painter based in France. Samet completed his education in Algers, the capital of Algeria, where he also studied at the School of Fine Arts. Samet defines himself as a painter of instinctive moments. His work shows affinities with the movement of free Expressionism and Art Brut movements. Structured by an incisive, sometimes sensitive but at other times aggressive stroke, Adlane paints in acrylics but makes room for the purity of the medium with its transparency and bright colour variations.
He has borrowed heavily from children’s composition and graphic gesture to develop a new visual language, which breaks off with the codes of academic realism. The artist succinctly confesses, “I paint moods.” These moods, or manifestations of e- motions (energy in motion), are evident in the undulation of both colour and movement vibrancy in his work. Each piece is a meditation, a transgression of programmed thought, instead Samet’s work transmutes familiar and popular concepts into a portrayal of the infinitely possible, producing a subjectivity of ethereal quality. Samet’s work typifies what it means to be an artist – the creator of something entirely new and idiosyncratic; the completely imagined.
AWARDS AND ACHEIVEMENTS
2nd Prize – Competition for young talents at the College of Fine Arts. 1st Prize – Workshop – Meeting
of art schools and young talents in Mostaganem, Algeria 2013.
2nd Prize – National award contest of the young painters, Société Générale Algeria, 2014.
1st Prize – Ali Maachi, 2014. (1st prize of Algerian painting).
2016-2018, Master in Plastic Art and Artistic management – at the University of the Art of
Valenciennes.
2009-2014, Graduate and Major of promotion – at the Higher School of Fine Arts of Algiers.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023, Solo show ‘’We are clowns‘’ Los Angeles, USA - Over the Influence Gallery
2022, Solo show ‘’New World’’ Bangkok, Thailand - Over the Influence Gallery.
2022, Solo show “Monsters have heart” Paris, France - Open Bach
2016, Solo show “Regard’s” Algiers, Algeria - gallery ESPACO.
2013, Solo show “Moi, ma force, mes blessures” Oran, Algeria - French institute of Algeria.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023, Group show ‘’Spring group show‘’ , Taipei, Taiwan, Vins Gallery
2023, Art fair Tokyo, Japan - Over the influence Gallery
2023, Group show “Interaction”, Paris, France - Galerie Zberro,
2022, Group show “Box of surprises”, Paris, France - Galerie Zberro.
2022, Group show Miami, USA - Pen Project Gallery.
2021, Art3f Luxembourg– gallery Norty.
2019, Art3f Marseille, France - gallery Norty.
2019, Art Madrid fair, Spain – gallery Norty.
2018, Art Fair Cannes, France – gallery Norty.
2018, Group show Algiers, Algeria - Seen Art gallery.
2018, Group show London, England - Josephine Clavel Gallery.
2017, Art3f Paris, France – gallery Norty.
2017, Art Fair Amsterdam, Bruxelles, Stockholm – gallery Norty.
2016-2017, Art Madrid fair with – gallery Norty.
2016, Teacher of painting and drawing – Contemporary space of El Achour.2015-2014, Art Fair (ST-ART) Strasbourg, France – gallery Norty.
2014, Affordable Art Fair Amsterdam, Netherlands – gallery Norty.
2014, Carousel du Louvre Paris, France – gallery Norty.
Friends | Acrylic on Canvas | 2021 | 130 X 97cm | KD 2,600
Untitled 2 | Acrylic on Canvas | 2021 | 116 x 95cm | KD 2,200
Al-Buraq | Mixed Media on Canvas | 2021 | 116 x 89cm | KD 2,200
Parasite | Mixed Media on Canvas | 2021 | 116 x 89cm | KD 2,200
AMIRA BEHBEHANI
Amira Behbehani a Kuwaiti self-taught artist, born in 1964-Kuwait. She began painting in 2001and participated in various international and local art exhibitions. In 2011, she got involved in an international peace organization called PEACE ONE DAY and marked Kuwait the first Arab country to celebrate peace on the 21 September 2012. In 2013, Amira was appointed as the peace ambassador for WPMP (Peace Project Marker Project) in Kuwait, and in 2015 became a member in the organisation Abolish 153. In 2018, Amira joined LAPA (Loyac Academy of Performing Arts) as Head of Fine Arts department.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2008, Banana Republic-US, Kuwait
2009, Kingdom of Attachments, Sultan Gallery, Kuwait
2010, Traces of a Scent, Court Yard, Bahrain
2010, FA Gallery, Kuwait
2016, The Fifteen Years of Amira Behbehani, Contemporary Art Platform (CAP), Kuwait
2018, The Eternal Ta’a, Dar AlFunoon, Kuwait
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2004, Teacher and the Apprentice, Dar AlFunoon, Kuwait
2006, Unity & Diversity, Dar AlFunoon, Kuwait
2006, Artists for Lebanon, Gusto Gallery, Kuwait
2006, Institute De Monte Arab, Paris,
2008, For Bayt Abdullah, Dar AlFunoon, Kuwait
2008, Arab Women Artists, Al Waif Gallery, Qatar
2011, Tilal Gallery, Kuwait
2011, FA Gallery, Kuwait
2011, MENASArt, Beirut
2011, the Opening of Contemporary Art Platform (CAP), Kuwait
2011, group exhibition with JAMM, Contemporary Art Platform (CAP), Kuwait
2011, Art Istanbul, Turkey
2013, KURSI Kuwaiti artists and designers Design Terminal, Budapest
Scream | Collage & Ink on paper | 2020 | 24 X 30cm Unframed | KD 270 (SOLD)
Green Man | Collage on paper | 2020 | 40 x 50 cm Framed | KD 270
Beirut | Collage on paper | 2020 | 30 x 40cm Unframed | KD 270
Pele | Collage on paper | 2020 | 40 x 50cm Framed | KD 270
Overlap I | Digital on cotton fabric with embroidery | 2019 | 60 x 30 cm | KD 370
Overlap II | Digital on cotton fabric with embroidery | 2019 | 60 x 30 cm | KD 370
Overlap III | Digital on cotton fabric with embroidery | 2019 | 43 x 54cm | KD 370
Overlap IIII | Digital on cotton fabric with embroidery | 2019 | 43 x 54cm | KD 370
Shiraz | Mixed Media on 3 Panels of Canvas | 2020 | 180 X 301cm | KD 4,500
Life on a Table | Mixed media on canvas | 2024 | 93 x 93cm framed | KD 610 (SOLD)
MARTIN GUSTAVSSON
Born in 1964, Martin lives and works in Stockholm and London.
Educated at Middlesex University in London and The Royal Institute in Stockholm.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019, Un Chant Ecarlate, Konstakademien, Stockholm
2019, In No Particular Order, Galleri Flach, Stockholm
2016, Saints and Fuckers w, Rhodas Cnbl and M. Abbadon, Proyecto AMIL, Lima
2015, El Mirage, Participant Inc, New York, also part of Performa 15 New York.
2013, Indentations, Maria Stenfors, London
2011, In No Particular Order, Göteborgs Konst Museum
2011, In No Particular Order, Galerie Crone, Berlin
2010, In No Particular Order, Maria Stenfors, London
2008, Wrath of God, Oslo Kunstforening, Oslo
2007, Wrath of God, Brändström & Stene, Stockholm
2005, Daisy Chain, Karizma Gallery, Kuwait
2004, The Gospel, Brändström & Stene, Stockholm
2003, The Gospel, Malmö Art Musuem, Malmö
2003, The Gospel, Konsthallen, Bohusläns Museum
2000, Double Happiness, Taro Nasu Gallery, Tokyo
PERFORMATIVE READINGS
with Ian White
2010, In No Particular Order, Maria Stenfors, London
2012, In Particular Order? No!, Eastside Projects, Birmingham
with Rodrigo Gomez Olivos
2018, In No Particular Order, Sprigg Gallery, London
with Cara Tolmie
2019, Bouquet- A Particular Song, Galleri Flach, Stockholm
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2018, Dak'art Biennial of Senegal
2015, Nature Morte, Artists reinvigorating the Still Life Tradition, Traveling Exhibition, Norway
2015, Uddevalla Sweden 2016, Warsaw Poland 2017 and London 2018.
2015, The Art's Festival of North Norway, Harstad Museum, Norway
2006, Art 37 Basel, Brändström & Stene, Stockholm
2005, Art 36 Basel, Brändström & Stene, Stockholm
2005, The Mirror of Desire, Milliken Gallery, Stockholm
1999, Mr Fascination, Thread Waxing Space, New York
1998, Ice Garden, London
IN THE COLLECTIONS OF
Moderna Museet
Göteborgs Konstmuseum
Malmö Konstmuseum
Norrköpings Konstmuseum
Collection Juan Carlos Verme, Peru
Large Floral | KD 1,500
Floral One | KD 510
Floral Two | KD 510
Golden Ode | 100 x 140cm | KD 3,150
Purple Ode | 100 x 140cm | KD 3,150
Black Ode | 100 x 140cm | KD 3,150
Aesthetics of Fruit On Trinity Street | 100 x 150cm | KD 2,100
Aesthetics of Fruit in a Bowl | 100 x 80cm | KD 1,650
Aesthetics of Fruit Sploshed | 100 x 150cm | KD 2,100
Yellow Flower | 200 X 250cm | Acrylic and market pen on fortified paper | KD 3,400
NEDA TAVALLAEE
Place of Date of Birth: 1973, Tehran, Iran
Education: B.F.A from the Art University of Tehran, 2000
Member of Alborz Painters Artists Association.
Co Founder and Head of Visual Arts Department, Boom Zang Rang Art Institute, Alborz Province.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021, Vallette Gallery, Kuala Lumpur / Online
2017, Atbin Gallery, Tehran
2015, Jana Comparative Contemporary Art Gallery, Tehran
2014, Siin Gallery, Tehran
2013, New Heritage Gallery, Cape Town
2013, Beautiful Life Building, Cape Town
2011, Siin Gallery, Tehran
2011, Haft samar Gallery, Tehran
2002, Khaak Gallery, Tehran
RESIDENCIES
2018, AE the Project Room Studio at Art Eye Gallery Residency funded by Mercedes Benz, Johannesburg
2017, Kooshk residency and Chhaap Foundation cultural exchange program, Vadodara
2016, I:O Art Residence at Helikon Art Center, Izmit
2014, USF Verftet Bergen, Bergen
2013, Young Blood Arts and Culture Development, Cape Town
2012, Greatmore Studios, Cape Town
2012, Red Gate Gallery, Beijing
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2020, Iranshahr Gallery #atelier99, online group exhibition
2020, Jaffer Modern, CapeTown
2019, 7 Art Gallery, Istanbul
2019, Aknoon Art Gallery, Isfahan
2019, Vallette Gallery, Kuala Lumpur
2019, Say Art Gallery, Tehran
2018, Vartan Gallery, Tehran
2018, Afrand Gallery, Tehran
2018, Negar Art Gallery, Tehran
2018, Latitude28 Gallery, New Delhi
2018, Prizma Sanat Merkezi Gallery, Izmit
2017, Gallery Chahar, Tehran
2017, Alborz Painters Artists Association, Alborz
2017, Open Studio Chhaap Foundation, Vadodara
2017, Edge Projects, London
2017, Latitude28 Gallery, New Delhi
2017, Open studio Mohsen Gallery, Tehran
2016, I:O Art Residence at Helikon Art Center, Izmit
2016, Art for Peace Festival, Tehran
2016, Atbin Gallery, Tehran
2015, Kargah-e-Honar, Tehran
2015, Atbin Gallery, Tehran
2014, Haftnegah Art Fair, Tehran
2013, Siin Gallery, Tehran
2012, Greatmore Studios, Cape Town
2012, Beautifull Life Building, Cape Town
2012, Shangri-la Open Studio, Beijing
2012, Haftnegah Art Fair, Tehran
2012, Hamnavayi Art Fair, Tehran
2012, Villa Kuriosum and Parking Gallery, Berlin
2001, Shafagh Gallery, Tehran
1997, Golestan Gallery, Tehran
1997, Jamshidieh Gallery, Tehran
1996, Golestan Gallery, Tehran
Cat Person | Mixed Media | 50 x 70cm | KD 300
To be Magnificent | Mixed Media | 50 x 70cm | KD 300
Home| Mixed Media | 50 x 70cm | KD 300
Sleepless Night | Mixed Media | 50 x 70cm | KD 300
Sitting Nude | Mixed Media | 50 x 70cm | KD 300
The Reconciliation | Mixed Media | 100 X 100cm | KD 670
Twins | Mixed Media | 120 x 80cm | KD 760
Treading Rainbows | Mixed Media | 150 x 100cm | KD 1150
Gol e Mordaab (Flowers of the Marshlands)
Performative Piece
Amidst the darkness of this night your roots entangle in wet soil,
Two hundred lullabies upon your lips, break in your heart,
You flower of the marshlands.
Softly you sway, like a drunken flower in the wind's embrace,
A cold kiss upon your cheek, you give your heart away,
You restless heart.
You redness of wine in the goblet,oh delicate little bird,
shall sing the song of love at dawn once more.
You purest wine,
You restless heart,
You flower of the marshlands.
HUDA ABDULMUGHNI
Huda Abdulmughni (b. 1964) is a Kuwaiti photographer whose work focuses on portraiture and place. Starting from her time as an interior design student in Amman in the late 1980’s, Abdulmughni’s images and photographic projects are inspired by her curiosity for the world around her and in particular by people’s own stories. She sets her subjects in their own unaltered environments, making use of natural light and familiar objects. Being adept at analogue and digital photography, Abdulmughni switches between both media depending on the subject in question.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019, East Ahmadi Market, Souk Mubarkiah, Kuwait
Placed life-size prints of twelve different storefronts photographed from the old Ahmadi market in 2015. This exhibition was a self-curated and funded with the help of private supporters.
2017, Yemen Now, Shaheed Park, Kuwait
Curated by Huda Abdulmughni with contributions the photographers Sami Alramyan and Alex Potter.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Annual Photography Award, Honorable Mention / Person : Portutre 2023 Finalists of IWPA
Award 6th Edition 2022 Addis Foto Fest Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 2021
Artifacts Of Education Sulatn Gallery, Kuwait 2021
Chemistry of Feeling GPP,Dubai, United Arab Emirates 2021
Belo Horizonte’s International Festival of Photography Brazil 2020
Gulf Photo Plus Slidefest Dubai, United Arab Emirates 2020
Gulf Photo Plus Slidefest Sponsored by Art Jameel Jeddah, Saudi Arabia 2019
Vantage Point Sharjah 7 Sharjah Art Foundation United Arab Emirates 2019
Night of Photography Tbilisi Photo Festival Georgia 2019
Gulf Photo Plus Slidefest Muharraq Bahrain 2019
The Portrait Darkroom Gallery Vermont, USA 2019
A Photographic Journey Through the Islamic World Asia House UK 2019
Connected Street Photography Dar Al-Athar Al-Islamiyyah, Kuwait 2018
Our Summer Tblisi Photo Festival Georgia 2017
Date Souk Boushehri Gallery Kuwait 2016
London Analogue Festival UK 2014
London Analogue Festival Uk 2013
Mumbai Shortlist FotoFilmic United States 2013
WPO Exhibition Somerset House UK 2012
PUBLICATIONS
2021, Mashrabiya Stories, Zericrafts Blog
2019, Kuwait Ice Skating, CNN Arabic
2019, Kuwait Taxi Series, CNN Arabic
2018, Sadu Weaving Atharna x Brownbook Magazine
2017, Mubkhar Atharna x Brownbook Magazine
2017, Al Kawakeb Brownbook Magazine
2017, Artisan Hands Kuwait Times
2017, Interview with Mai al Nakib Brownbook Magazine
2014, Yemeni Collective Wedding Brownbook Magazine
2013, Date Souk NSEW by Film Shooters Collective
ABOUT THE SERIES
Nowruz Sayadeen (Fishermen’s New Year)
During the searing summer heat in Qeshm Island, the village of Salakh is overcome by the celebrations of the annual Nowruz Sayadeen (the Fisherman’s New Year). On this day all fishing – a symbol of the village’s livelihood – comes to a standstill out respect to nature’s bounty. In the midst of the celebrations an array of characters’ push through the crowd, teasing and frightening anyone in their path. The only make-believe characters, the Shushis, toys with the crowd the most. The palm leaves brandished on each of their hands are used in dance, and the long woven reed hat on their heads guarantees they never get lost in the crowd. The other characters include; the shtoor (camel), asb (horse), rooba (bird), and the booye saroom (pastor’s son).
East Ahmidi Market
Ahmadi town was founded in 1946 with the discovery of oil in southern Kuwait. The town served the needs of the newly hired Kuwait Oil Company workforce. Designed by the British architect Mr. James Wilson’s (1887-1965) Mason and Partners, Ahmadi represented a new concept in urban design to Kuwait. The town’s souk, which was built in 1961, served as a point of exchange and interaction for its residents. In fact, many of Kuwait City’s (al-Deirah) residents would venture to Ahmadi on the weekend to visit the souk.
The souk housed several shops in two large concrete structures, topped with a lattice wall that ventilated and illuminated the space. Grocers, dry cleaners, bicycle shops and more were lined side by sides. The store signs were each drawn by hand, and displayed a variety of Arabic scripts. Each store-front carried information on the year in which the store opened - most ranging between 1961 and 1974 - and the names of the respective Kuwaiti, Indian, Iranian, and Palestinian shop-owners.
In 2013, the National Council of Culture, Arts and Letters (NCCAL) announced plans for the restoration of this historic market into a culture platform.
Art Piece 1 | 2018 | Kodak Porta | A3 Size | KD 270
Art Piece 2 | 2018 | Kodak Porta | A3 Size | KD 270
Art Piece 3 | 2018 | Kodak Porta | A3 Size | KD 270
Art Piece 4 | 2018 | Kodak Porta | A3 Size | KD 270
Art Piece 5 | 2018 | Kodak Porta | A3 Size | KD 270
Art Piece 6 | 2018 | Kodak Porta | A3 Size | KD 270
Fatima and Taiba | 2018 | Digital Print | A3 Size | KD 270
Saloon Sadiq | 2015 | Digital Print | A3 Size | Limited Edition of 5 | KD 205
Saloon Palestine | 2015 | Digital Print | A3 Size | Limited Edition of 5 | KD 205
Laundry India | 2015 | Digital Print | A3 Size | Limited Edition of 5 | KD 205
Alaiban | 2015 | Digital Print | A3 Size | Limited Edition of 5 | KD 205
Saloon Mohammed Ibrahim | 2015 | Digital Print | A3 Size | Limited Edition of 5 | KD 205
Ahmadi Bikes | 2015 | Digital Print | A3 Size | Limited Edition of 5 | KD 205
HANNAH LUDOW
Born in Cornwall in 1977, Ludnow grew up in a creative environment and painted from a very young age. The artist moved to London at 18 to study art at university where she studied a mixture of skills; painting, life drawing, ceramics, and print, geared towards commissions for contemporary spaces.
Since graduating, Ludnow has focused on painting. The coastline of Cornwall is usually the artist’s starting point as it seems to be etched into her memory. The amazing light, the huge and ever changing skies and beautiful dramatic coastlines, she has always greatly admired the Cornish abstract impressionists, Peter Lanyon, Patrick Heron and Ben Nicholson, whose work draws directly from experiences of a dramatic or calmness in nature and landscape.
Ludnow’s work is rarely an actual place, instead she hopes to build an atmosphere in a painting which draws you in and allows you to imagine yourself there, stood on a cliff, a beach or behind the dunes, exposed to the elements and the unpredictability of nature. The artist strives to capture a feel and recollection of somewhere the viewer knows or remembers wherever in the world this may be. Her paintings are more about the light and the feelings a place can evoke in the viewer, the emotions that a memory of a place and time can stir within. A memory of thoughts and feelings within a landscape, often a special and private moment, where the vastness and beauty of the landscape around you brings a sense of perspective, clarity and calm.
Art Piece 1, Acrylic on Canvas, 102 x 102 cm, KD 380
Art Piece 2, Acrylic on Canvas, 102 x 102 cm, KD 420
Art Piece 3, Acrylic on Canvas, 102 x 102 cm, KD 420
Art Piece 4, Acrylic on Canvas, 102 x 102 cm, KD 420