On this episode of the Gallery Girl podcast I am joined by Amani AlThuwaini, a Kuwaiti mixed media artist and designer born in Ukraine. She believes that the cultural duality she inherited through her Kuwaiti-Ukrainian roots greatly influenced her unique awareness of identity and culture, impelling her to explore this in her work
Samar’s artworks explore the possibilities of expanding the internalised boundaries of meaning-making, drawing inspiration from various craft traditions.
In this episode I’m joined by Elina Sairanen and Wadha Al-Aqeedi, founders of Mathqaf, a platform that publishes, researches, curates, collaborates and champions art from West Asia and North Africa.