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Artist Abeer Baghdadi
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Artist Zahrah Alghamdi
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ABEER BAGHDADI | Biography
Abeer Baghdadi (b. 1966, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia) is a jewellery designer and maker whose work is produced within the contemporary jewellery discipline. In 2004 she graduated with an MA in Jewellery from London Metropolitan University. In 2006 she started producing work that pays ‘homage’ to past jewellery traditions. Her silversmithing process and materials emphasise the function of traditional Arabic jewellery with a focus on traditional vessels that carried important texts relating to the owner of the piece with the purpose of protection. Abeer’s aim is revisiting the shapes and forms of past traditional Saudi Arabian jewellery and produce new shapes and forms intended as a hybrid to produce contemporary Saudi Arabian jewellery. https://www.instagram.com/abeer_baghdadi_jewellery/?hl=en |
ZAHRAH ALGHAMDI | Biography
Zahrah Al-Ghamdi’s (b. 1977, Al Bahah, KSA) work explores memory and history through traditional architecture in both medium and assemblage. Her site-specific work sees the laborious and meticulous process in which she assembles particles of Earth, clay, rocks, leather, and water. Both medium and her process of making draw on the notion of ‘embodied memory’ to translate and delineate themes of cultural identity, memory and loss. Al-Ghamdi grew up in the Southwestern region of Saudi Arabia. She then moved to Jeddah where she completed her undergraduate’s degree in Islamic Arts from King Abdulaziz University. She holds a Master’s Degree in Contemporary Craft from Coventry University in England, where she also obtained her P.H.D in Design and Visual Art. Her thesis analyses traditional domestic architecture from South Western Saudi Arabia in contemporary settings. Indeed, growing up in that region, surrounded by traditional Aseeri architecture, has played an integral role in her practice. She is a faculty member of the Islamic Arts Department at King Abdulaziz University. https://www.instagram.com/dr.zahrah_alghamdi/?hl=en |
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