In this episode of the Gallery Girl podcast we are joined by Laureen Topalian Bensaid, an artist based in Paris who studied at Ecole des Beaux Arts and then took on the traditional art of Persian miniature painting with French Iranian master Abbas Moayeri. Much of her work is inspired by Indian and Iranian miniature paintings, bringing this traditional artform into the contemporary.
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In this episode of the Gallery Girl podcast I’m joined by Rachel Dedman, a writer, curator and art historian based in London. Rachel is the Jameel Curator of Contemporary Art from the Middle East at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. She is also the curator of the current exhibition of Material Power: Palestinian Embroidery at Kettle’s Yard in Cambridge, which will soon be traveling to the Whitworth in Manchester. In addition to all this, she is co-curating the next edition of the State of Fashion Biennale in Arnhem in the Netherlands and has worked on many interesting projects that span the UK, Lebanon and Palestine.
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In this episode of the Gallery Girl podcast we are joined by Malak Mattar, a Palestinian artist from Gaza based between Palestine and London. She creates the most beautiful paintings and is also the author of Sitti’s Bird.
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In this episode of the Gallery Girl podcast we are joined by Afraa Ahmed, a Yemeni artist currently based in Cairo. Throughout her art Afraa explores the constructed landscapes of Yemen. Her work harnesses her experience as an expatriate exploring notions of place, belonging, identity and exile. Her recent work focuses on the spectrum regarding where the meaning of home falls into, in between imagination and reality, in between memory and intention.
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In this episode of the podcast, we are joined by Muriel Ahmarani Jaouich, a Canadian artist of Armenian, Egyptian and Lebanese descent. Her gorgeous paintings illustrate genealogy, intergenerational trauma and historical violence.
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