A large arched gate loom in the foreground, straddling a serpentine road that winds its way through a peaceful and verdant landscape. The painting is very textured with layers and layers of 4 words- life, love, justice, and peace in Arabic, English,…
Sacrifice was painted in San Francisco after I returned from a 6-month stay in Israel/Palestine as an artist-in-residence in 1988 during the first Intifada. The images are from photographs and sketches of a soldier, teacher, the artist, a child, and…
This painting is no. #2 of the series of 'Exiled'. I tried to capture the inner feeling of those who are forced to leave their houses, families, friends, the most; their homeland. These feelings are hard to depict as they are very deep. How do you…
People leaving their country forcibly. The big cube represents the Homeland. They are carrying each other. They are leaving their country, but, their country will NOT leave them. We know that history is always written by the winners. Yet, for me; we…
‘Asylum in Art’ is a photo-narrative exhibition taking the audience on an experiential tour of lived reality. Asylum in Art shines a lens on what life is like inside a British Immigration Removal Centre (IRC) and beyond release into a community in…
May Murad's series of paintings, Flower Of Freedom (Separated From Every Garden), were created in response to poetic theatre texts written by Habibah Sheikh, a nomadic performance artist originally from Lebanon, and the curator of the Mitli Mitlak…