Zarah Hussain
Uzbek Squares, 2024
£300*
EDITION SIZE: 50 with 5 A/P (signed and numbered by the artist)
FINISHING: Giclée print, archival ink
on acid free lightfast Hahnemühle German etching paper, 310 gsm
DIMENSIONS: 500 x 500mm
*(unframed) plus post and packaging. VAT included.
Barts Health NHS staff recieve a 10% discount on all editions
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Alternatively, you can purchase this limited edition by emailing vitalarts.bartshealth@nhs.net
Uzbek Squares is an extension of Zarah Hussain’s 2012 commission Cloud 10 for the Royal London Hospital, which has since changed use, and has been relocated to the Outpatients Stairwell at Whipps Cross Hospital as part of the Vital Arts strategy to improve the clinical environment there.
This limited edition giclee print echoes the artists language of geometric abstraction derived from traditional Islamic Art, merging two artistic traditions linking Islamic pattern with western abstract art.
Hussain describes her practice as a visual examination of how spirituality, technology, and art connect. Her work is drawn from an interest in shapes, pattern, and colour which she fuses to produce complex spatial and optical forms. Hussain has said, "my paintings are inspired by patterns from all over the Islamic world and I am fascinated by the sense of vibration, energy and spirituality present in geometry." Working across digital media, painting and sculpture, the artist draws on historic textiles, tiles, manuscripts, and building surfaces found in the Islamic world. She combines mathematical art references-- such as structures and tessellating patterns--with references to the abstraction of 20th-century artists such as Victor Vasarely, Josef Albers, Mark Rothko, Agnes Martin, and Bridget Riley.
Zarah Hussain (b.1980) lives and works in London. She has exhibited extensively in the UK, Europe, the USA and the MENASA region, including at the William Morris Gallery, London; the Barbican Centre, London, the Sharjah Museum; and the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts. Her work is held in many collections, and she was awarded the Lumen Prize (People’s Choice) in 2017. Hussain earned her MA in Islamic Art from the Prince’s School.
Proceeds from the sale of this print support will support the Ectopic Pregnancy Trust and the Vital Arts programme.
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