オンラインギャラリー（すべての画像は正方形のフォーマットで表示されていることに注意してください。そのため、アートワークの一部の領域がトリミングされています。）

読者に自己紹介をしてください

I am a multidisciplinary visual artist, bilingual writer, poet and journalist contributor. Born and raised in Gaza to Palestinian Christian parents from Jaffa who were exiled from their homeland in1948. In my birthplace I experienced the war crises in my childhood and youth, and I embarked with my family on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, The Holy Land. At the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, I was overwhelmed by the beauty of holy icons, its color, harmony and artistic revelations. The feeling at that moment of spiritual connection remains strong and resides within the core of my being. 

私は幼い頃から絵を描き始め、常に学校雑誌を手作業で制作する責任を負っていました。私は教育省から数々の最高の芸術賞を受賞しており、幼い頃から芸術を植え付けられて育ちました。私は肖像画や具象芸術に対する情熱を育み、現実の人々の肖像画を描きました。

In Australia, I started my journey as an artist and have professionally held numerous national and international solo and group art exhibitions with acclaimed artists in prestigious venues. Besides me being a freelance and community visual artist, I worked as a TV foreign correspondent, community radio presenter, and bilingual writer/journalist contributor in the Australian Ethnic Media.

I also worked as an administrator in the Concord Repatriation General Hospital focusing on war veteran patients, who were affected by World War II, physically, emotionally and mentally. Working in the Hospital has taught me empathy where I acquired more knowledge and wisdom about humanity, social justice, and calls for ending war and waging peace. My artistic voice is shaped by war crises impacting women and humanity in general. 

My art combines digital and traditional media, reflecting on the global challenges facing humanity, aiming for transformation and social change. Through my life journey I gained a true human experience for the realities of human existence including the essence of human life. My impetus desire for creating art becomes compelling, to reflect on significant subjects, to narrate stories, to stimulate, and inspire viewers for positive change towards advancing humanity and reshaping reality. 

How would you describe your work to someone seeing it for the first time, in particular your recent work exhibited in the ‘XIII Florence Biennale 2021’? 

In reference to my participation in the ‘XIII Florence Biennale’ 2021:

My work is radiant and significant for it reflects on important humanistic topics and highlights the power of vivid colors that plays a powerful role in viewers’ soul, memory, emotion and energy. Every single artwork is dramatic and rich with the possibility to evoke feelings of curiosity. The directed perception is human, sensuous, rational, spiritual and eternal. There is a symbolic and philosophical thread in my art that penetrates the human soul. This is where I want my viewers to contemplate the inward visual perceptual communication, to open a channel of conversation and to view the unseen. I reflect on human psychology and perception, conscience, consciousness, subconsciousness, and unconsciousness to see the inner significance of my art with a purpose to find hope towards the reconfiguration of humanity and the reshaping of reality.

アートに対する直感的で学際的なアプローチを採用した私の作品は、伝統的なものであるかデジタルであるか、あるいはその両方を組み合わせるかを選択する、探索的な発見プロセスに基づいています。私は伝統的なメディア アートと新しいメディア アートを対比させながらアーティストとしての創造性を探求し、現代文化の中で新しいテクノロジーを使用することに品質を見出しています。私のアートは、私の魂と、私自身、私の考え、情熱、感情、アイデンティティ、価値観に関連するすべてを反映する鏡です。この作品は、変革とポジティブな社会的変化に力を与え、それを目指すことを目標とする西洋と東洋の普遍的な女性としての私の経験、記憶、世界とのつながりを描いています。

My paintings conjure realistic topics, and expressive portraits. In Exploring the Joy of Conscience inspired by the power of having clear human conscience, self-consciousness and philosophy as a means for knowledge of ourselves, I reflect on the universal issues facing our globe that require distal thinking to review human conscience towards reshaping humanity.

Like Lotus and Bamboo Resilient は、明晰夢と人間の意識の概念に基づいた回復力のテーマを強調しています。私の人生の旅の中で、無限の球体の渦を経験し、不安のスパイラルに陥る課題と格闘するとき、私は明晰になり、無限の世界で地球の周りを渦巻き、そこで生命の動きや動きを捉えます。忍耐力、自制心、そして知恵の感覚が、困難にもかかわらず私の回復力を高めてくれます。

私の多翼祭壇画「Brilliant Women Faces」では、伝統的なメディアとデジタルメディアを一度に組み入れました。私は伝統的に手描きしてきたポートレートのイメージと、私が作成したデジタル メディアの紫色のケシの風景を組み合わせました。私が実際の生活から描いた肖像画は、オーストラリア社会に目覚ましい貢献をし、さまざまな民族的背景から驚異的に成功した移住者の知られざる傑出した女性たちを表現しています。

My painting of Hope for Peace expresses human emotions of longing for peace as an essential part of humanity. It raises my voice to communicate with the world to be heard and better understood. It represents the story of a Palestinian woman who has been experiencing prolonged war with no peace. My work reflects on reconfiguration of experiences and memories rooted in human personal culture and identity. I textualised the image with symbols and digits related to the subject to evoke a new perception. Bridging realism, symbolism and expressionism, I focus on the woman’s facial expression that emphasises the virtuous feelings of profound humility, and spirituality. The unique embroidered cross-stitch is a symbol of her cultural heritage and identity. She has the gift of heroic patience that cultivates hope for peace in the hearts of viewers, hoping to end war and to transfer humanity into a better world. 

Through my art, I explore the world of knowledge, wisdom and optimism, its beautiful creation, portrayal, and depiction. To me, that is the role of art at this strange time, to make us think and hope, to feel and wonder, to smile with no fear, to imagine and dream, to endure and heal, to reveal the truth, and to explore the invisible. 

あなたの作品に影響を与えたアーティストは何ですか?

I am influenced by the spiritual transformation in art within socio-political spheres through contemporary artists such as Joseph Beuys, James Turrell, Ai Weiwei, and Vassily Kandinsky. I am also influenced by the thoughts of contemporary philosophers and theorists, such as Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Murray Edelman. 

過去または現在のアーティストとコラボレーションできるとしたら、誰を選びますか?その理由は何ですか?

私なら、社会の再形成における芸術的影響力を理由にヨーゼフ・ボイスを選び、知性と超現実的な肖像画を求めてクレイグ・ワイリーを選びます。

What can we expect to see from you in the future?

I am participating in the VAA Professional Artist Award 2022 in London UK. I will also be participating in the exhibition of ‘Modern Art Masters’ 2022 in du Louvre, Paris France, and currently I am preparing to receive the ‘ArtTour International Top 60 Masters Award’ (ATIM) 2022.

私のトップ 4 アートワーク

1 - Exploring the Joy of Conscience

2 - Like Lotus and Bamboo Resilient Lucid Dreamer

3 - Hope for Peace

4 - 華麗な女性の顔