- Venue
- THE GALLERY
- Starts
- Thursday, April 5, 2012
- Ends
- Thursday, April 26, 2012
- Address
- The Gallery, Barking Ground Floor Barking Learning Centre 2 Town Square Barking IG11 7NB United Kingdom T. 020 8227 2482
- Location
- London
Semitic Art London is the brainchild of Abbey, a British-born artist from Essex. Abbey grew up in a predominantly white, Christian and Jewish part of London (now changed over the last two decades), during which he had ‘Protestant’ and ‘Catholic’ ethics instilled into him, complimentary to an Islamic faith. His artwork is inspired by comparative religious narratives and parables spanning across the three Semitic faiths of Christianity, Judaism and Islam. Seeing patterns and connections from everyday life, he expresses common ideas through modern geometric design, in some sense re-inventing a tradition of textual illumination. Particularly influenced by Biblical and Quranic illumination and calligraphy, and incorporating various modern artistic sensibilities based on abstraction (such as Cubism), he considers his work to be akin to the 18th century iconography of William Blake, who sought to depict the often complex relationship between humankind and God. For Abbey, such an enquiry is about broadly engaging an introspective critique of the nature of the ‘self’ and its liability to ‘impose’. To find out more about Semitic Art London and its work, visit www.semiticart.com or watch a recent interview of Abbey by the Muslim Institute London . Abbey’s work is also available to purchase via the Saatchi Gallery or alternatively you can contact him via email [email protected]
