Category: Embroidery
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Nagat Farouk, is an Egyptian artist graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Art Education from Helwan University in 1987 and subsequently earned both her Master’s and Doctorate degrees in Art Education from the same institution. She has showcased her work in various solo exhibitions, including those at the Gezira Arts Center, the Egyptian Opera House,…
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Rawan Abbas (b.1996) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Cairo, Egypt. She has participated in many shows where she exhibited textiles, sculpture, installation art, and video. Notably, she participated in the Dak’art Biennial in 2022, London’s 1-54 Art Fair with Mashrabia Gallery of Contemporary Art in 2021, and had two solo exhibitions in Hamburg, Germany…
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Born in Cairo 1940, Egyptian artist Ikram Omar studied at the faculty of Fine Arts, Egypt, and at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux Arts in Paris, France. Finally, she obtained her degree from the Accademia di Belle Arti in Rome, Italy, in 1966. The artist, Ikram Omar, chose to make her cultural artistic message…
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(1932 – 2018) Jumana El Husseini was born in Jerusalem on April 2, 1932, to Jamal El Husseini and Nimati al-Alami, members of two prominent Jerusalem families. On her father’s side, her links to Jerusalem extended back to at least the 13th century. She had six brothers and five sisters, including Serene Husseini Shahid, and…
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Amman based mixed media artist, Shereen Quttaineh graduated with a Bachelor in Fine Arts from Yarmouk university in 1999. She Participated in several group exhibitions in Amman. Shereen explores contemporary textile art and printing in most of her pieces. Her interest in nature, patterns, and cultural symbols is evident in her work. She often uses…
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Aya Haidar (b. 1985, lives and works in London) is a multimedia artist; her work focuses on the use of found and recycled objects exploring loss, migration, memory, labour, domesticity and womanhood. Her hand-embroidered interventions onto culturally and historically specific objects, unfold silenced and authentic narratives around socially and politically engaged issues. Aya Haidar graduated…
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Born in 1973 in Meknes (Morocco). Lives and works in Marrakech. Ghizlane Sahli embroiders, sculpts and draws. She tells of an interior and organic journey, carried by a universal dimension. With the help of ancestral techniques and the know-how of the women artisans who surround her, she develops her contemporary ideas. Together, they create three-dimensional…
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Khadija El Abyad is multidisciplinary visual artist, born in 1991 in Agadir. She is a graduate of the Institut National des Beaux Arts, (Tétouan 2017) and holder of a Master’s degree in Cultural and Artistic Engineering at FLSH Ben M’Sik (Casablanca 2019). Her plastic practice is essentially built around BODY SCREENS in various dimensions: the…
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Malika Sqalli is a multicultural and multilingual artist who uses photography as a medium which shows “reality” in new ways, or, as the great critic John Berger put it, her images are a way of “catching the frame between the frame”, and that frame can be an idea or an emotion in the mind that…
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Faten Nastas Mitwasi was born in 1975 in Bethlehem. She was inspired by her father, Fawzy Nastas, a prolific sculptor. She received an MFA from Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem in 2011. She started working at Dar Annadwa Cultural Center in 1998 as the art coordinator, curating exhibitions and organizing courses. She…
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Self-taught artist, Khedija Essaied Jeddi (1976), looks at the world through the eyes of an eternal child. The artist uses her sensitivity to subjects, some of which are recurring in her reflection, to deliver narrative work, mixing texts, embroidery, painting and pastels. Her artistic work is constructed and fleshed out mainly around issues that are…
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Ranging from painting and sculpture to performance and multimedia installation, the artistic practice of Dana Awartani (Saudi Arabia/Palestine) imbues forms, techniques, concepts, and spatial constructs that define Arab culture with contemporary awareness. Her work spans a variety of materials and techniques and often revolves around reinterpreting geometric patterns as a highly codified and philosophical mode…