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Artist Statement:
Art, for me, is about beauty.
The primary motive is the
aesthetic value, so I tend to
lean towards the “art for
art’s sake” school of theory.
I do not like to be surrounded
by ugliness, no matter how
meaningful it may be; that
would kindle too much negative
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Artist Exhibitions:
Exhibitions:
• Participated in her first
art exhibition at the age of
ten (in 1977) at the Ahmed
Al-Adwani exhibition hall in
Dahiat Abdullah Al-Salem,
Kuwait.
• First solo exhibition in
1994 at Ghadir Gallery in
Salhiya, Kuwait.
• Second solo art exhibition,
entitled Faces, at Boushihri
Gallery in Salmiya in ...
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Artist Galleries:
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Artist Reviews:
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Collections:
• Painting acquired by
Shiseido company in Paris,
1997.
• Four paintings acquired by
the National Council of
Culture, Arts, and Literature,
Kuwait, 2002.
• Painting acquired by Sheikh
Ahmed Abdullah Al-Ahmed
Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, 2002.
• Acquisitions with various
distinguished people and
diplomats.
- Painting acquired by the
Museum of Modern Art...
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Commissions:
Commissions:
• Cover art illustration for
Mr Hamad Al-Hamad’s book,
Kuwait, 1993.
• Painting for Mr. Tareq
Abdullah Amin for his villa in
Salwa, Kuwait, 2007.
• 8 murals (wall paintings)
for the Bayan Palace,
Presidential Residential
villas, Kuwait, 2008.
• 3 paintings for the Bayan
Palace, Presidential
Residential villas, Kuwait,
2008.
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Shurooq Amin Biography:
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Age
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40
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| Gender |
Female
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| Status |
Married
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| Children |
4
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| Religion |
Muslim |
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| Education |
Post Graduate Degree |
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| Hobbies / Interests |
Painting, poetry, writing, reading, music, scuba diving, ballet, interior decorating. |
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| Favorite Artistic Medium |
Painting Oil
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| Favorite Arthistory Movement |
Abstract Expressionism - (1940 - 1955)
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| Favorite Visual Artist |
Gustav Klimt
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| Favorite Work of Art |
Medicine by Klimt
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| Biggest Artistic Inspiration |
Music, our senses, the sky, the sea, life, death, color. |
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| Why Did You Become An Artist |
It was not a choice. I was born with a brush in my mouth! |
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| Your Personal Biography |
I was born in Kuwait on October 10 1967 to a Kuwaiti father and a Syrian mother, I am an Anglophone poet, an artist with five successful solo art exhibitions, a certified interior decorator, a lecturer, and I am the Head of the English Language Unit at the College of Business Administration, Kuwait University. I hold a PhD in Creative Writing and an MA in English Literature. I have appeared on several television interviews on Kuwait TV, as well as in various Middle Eastern and Kuwaiti magazines and newspapers, and have also given lectures about poetry and writing to school-children in private British schools in Kuwait and poetry readings to students of the American University of Kuwait. I am a member of many literary and artistic societies, including The Poetry Society (UK), The Poetry Society of America, the Association of Writers and Writing Programs (USA), the Kuwait Arts Association (Kuwait), the International Association of Art, the World Crafts Council (Asia Pacific), and the Certified Interior Decorators International (CID, USA). My cultural diversity stems not only from my Middle Eastern upbringing and British education, but from my extensive travel experiences in Asia and the Middle East, North Africa, North and South America, and Europe. I live in Kuwait with my husband and four children in a feng-shuied, Mexican/Moroccan-inspired home. |
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