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THE PATTERN CUTTERS As you’ll have noticed, I haven’t posted anything here on my blog in a long time. I’ve finished the MA now; it’s all behind me. I’ve taken a few weeks to clear myself of the post-MA clutter […]
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Showtime today, July 13 2010.
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I’ve now finished my final project, TAKE 7, which will be the main piece in the installation of my MA exhibition on 13 July. There won’t be any pictures of it until the exhibition, because I want you to come […]
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Me and my MA … When I first decided to go to do the MA at CCA, I assumed that my long experience in graphic drawing would be an easy and fast vehicle for delivering significant prints. I came in […]
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DRAWING BOOKS I’ve just completed 8 books of drawings, 110 pages each. Why? Well, I draw all day every day; it’s a full time job and I do it so much that after a time the drawings come out of […]
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Part 2 I just called Louise Bourgeois a “shaykha .” What is that? In the part of the world where I come from, it’s a word coming from the root “shaikukha” which means “old age.” It’s an Arabic word used […]
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THE DEATH OF THE SHAYKHA a eulogy for Louise Bourgeois While I was drawing in my studio in the early hours of June 1 2010 with the radio on, the last item on the news stopped me in my tracks. […]
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Anarchy in the UK This morning on my way to college suddenly there came on my pod player one Sex Pistols song. As soon as I heard the first line “I am an antichrist, I am an anarchist” I went […]
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PRECIOUS While I am was hanging my first paintings on the wall, I asked one of my colleagues to help me, which she did. We stretched the large paper on the wall and I started to nail it using my […]
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SHOULD I BE OFFENDED?? As I now live and work as a British artist there are many people who don’t know that I came to England in 2002 in the age of 32. Before that I studied and worked in […]
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CONCERTINA BOOKS During the last 2 months I have become really involved with book art; I’m really excited about that; it’s like finding a totally new outlet for drawing I can’t say much about it now as usually I find […]
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One of the main things that drives me crazy in Britain – well to be precise one of the things that drives me mad in London art environment – is the emotional disengagement and the lack of reaction. My attempt […]