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.
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.
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.