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2023 Exhibitions
MY GRANDFATHER’S ORCHARD
Ahmed ElKhalidi
8 - 31 July 2023
Returning to exhibit in Amman in 2023, Ahmed Elkhalidi returns metaphorically to his father’s childhood home town of Jaffa, the Mediterranean and stories of his grandfather’s orchard.
ElKhalidi has always explored identity and his heritage in his artwork. This exhibition is an homage to his family, superimposing tales from a childhood in Jaffa over contemporary impressions of his own.
He works with an illustrative style enabling him to add elements from past and present with cutouts, type, photos and hand drawn elements creating a fusion of imagery, much the same way our brains throw memories around.
CIRCLE MANIFESTATION
YASER DWEIK
12 June - 5 July 2023
A spotlight on contemporary work by Jordanian pioneer artist and printmaker Yaser Dweik, with original prints and works on paper covering a spiritual meaning of the circle in a traditional imagery through to contemporary calligraphy compositions.
Yaser Dweik, along with his contemporaries and great friends Mahmoud Taha, Nasr Abdel Aziz, Aziz Ammoura, Keram Al Nimri and Abdel Raouf Shamoun developed their various areas of expertise in the 1970s, crossing over disciplines and often collaborating together on works.
They were amongst the first Jordanian artists to have studied abroad and all returned to be involved in education of the arts and advance their own practices. Yaser has been a dedicated teacher and mentor to students since this time.
The circle in Dweik’s prints is associated with a wide range of symbolic meanings and aesthetic aspects. It is widely interpreted as a symbol of wholeness and unity, with its spherical form representing completeness, completion, and unity.
Despite majoring in painting, his printmaking skills evolved to introduce various technical methods and styles to his contemporary work often using several techniques in the one print. The results show deft layers of colour, texture and patterns to tell the story.
SURFACE TENSIONS
Peter Bogaczewicz
part of the 11th Image Festival Amman
5 – 31 May 2023
As part of the 11th Image Festival Amman, Jacaranda Images is hosting an exhibition by Canadian photographer Peter Bogaczewicz.
Surface Tensions investigates the contemporary landscape of the Arabian Gulf, where the effects of human activity on the natural environment leave a particularly noticeable mark. The region’s visual purity highlights even the lightest intervention in the landscape as if it were a foreign body. Yet the interventions on this land are far from being light, the process of building ambitious infrastructure and projects, the act of putting down roots, is transforming the landscape at lightning speed.
This confluence of nature and culture is an ever-evolving dynamic that is turning progressively more complex while often becoming increasingly fraught with tension. And although humans are not alone in shaping their environment, we are uniquely placed in the animal kingdom in that what we shape ends up posing a mounting alternative to nature, transforming it into the man-made, or at the very least, man-altered, environment. It reveals a deep tension between what can be seen as progress - the aspirations of the human community and the environment.
Here the human element has a particularly noticeable presence, there is no effort at concealment that the land is there to be dominated, and progress is in itself a force of nature, rivaling nature itself.
Peter has recently published his first monograph, Kingdom of Sand and Cement (Daylight Books, 2019) with essays by photographer Edward Burtynsky, journalist and author Karen Elliott House and art historian Rodrigo Orrantia. Signed copies are available during the exhibition.
THERAPEUTICAL PRAYERS
Masallam Hadib
16 September - 7 October 2023
Jacaranda Images is proud and excited to present artist Msallam Hdaib 1st solo exhibition “Therapeutical Prayers”
A remarkable journey through doubts and suspicion and finding inner peace.
“The years spanning 2019 to 2022 marked a transformative chapter for me. During these difficult years, suspicion casted a veil, distorting perceptions and weaving intricate stories of unseen shadows and whispered conspiracies that enveloped my psyche.
From this cauldron of experiences emerged a sacred refuge—a fusion of color and prayer that would evolve into "Therapeutical Prayers." In the rhythm of tally-marks, a silent dialogue with the divine took shape, a meditative cadence that carried me from the depths of panic to the shores of tranquility.
This collection encapsulates the mosaic of catharsis—the dance between brushstrokes and whispered Istighfar (Prayer of Forgiveness), an offering of both surrender and reclamation. Within the frames of "Therapeutical Prayers," you'll find echoes of my journey—a reflection of my spirit's dance amidst fantasies and the labyrinthine corridors of fear.
The collection invites you on a visual pilgrimage—a dialogue between the known and the intangible. "Therapeutical Prayers" is an intimate revelation, an alchemical transformation where art becomes a vessel for healing and self-discovery.
As you embark on this journey, I hope you'll find echoes of your own within the narrative of the work. It's an immersive testament to the power of art, faith, and resilience.” Msallam
2022 Exhibitions
Of Home and Land
Haya Halaw
5-31 March 2022
"Of Home and Land is an exploration of the limbo I found myself in after fleeing the war. An exploration of the love-hate relationship I have with my own land and the shifting role this geographic location played in mine and many others being." Haya Halaw
IF THEY MOVE ME... I DIE
Mohamed Hozyen
Part of the 10th Image Festival Amman
11- 30 September 2022
As part of the 10th Image Festival Amman, Jacaranda Images is hosting an exhibition by Egyptian photographer Mohamed Hozyen.
In 2011, the Egyptian authorities issued demolition orders to remove all random residential areas and illegal buildings. The decision went into action at the beginning of 2016 by gradually removing old districts in the capital. Today, a total of 56 areas have been demolished and more than 2 million citizens were forced out.
My grandmother's house is now in danger of being demolished; she has lived there since 1952 when she married my grandfather. I feel overwhelmed with sadness when I think of how my grandmother is going to face that moment, leaving 70 years of memories and life behind. She can’t picture herself outside the place she calls home, and prefers to die rather than be put in that situation.” Mohamed Hozyen.
A FINE LINE
Mary Abuzid
10- 31 October 2022
Mary is a Jordanian artist, printmaker and gallerist
at Jacaranda Images. Mary’s art is delicate and precise, its a lens magnified on the beauty that she finds in the details of her subjects.
PRECIOUS
Collages by Karina Rbeihat, Lahib Jaddo and Riman Meho
12 Nov - 10 Dec 2022
Three female artists share their very personal and precious relationships with their family, their history and themselves. Their use of collage provides a means to navigate the layers of complexity required for the exploration.
Each artist assembles different elements and influences and make them work within a picture plane to create a language for themselves, creating a whole and cohesive statement. The exhibition acknowledges the individual vision and uniqueness of each artist whilst allowing the audience some insight to their collective desire to resolve past memories and find peace.
“Sending out a letter hoping I receive it. There she was trapped in sorrow and fear. All these memories she kept in her mind, of going home, creating empty structures built up her own mind. Closing the doors and looking for what was left, only half truth. Created an infinity without begging or end, gathering strength for the battles of surviving the day. Remembering words she once said to look up to the stars, she will be always there to protect her. This project is dedicated to Моя дорогая мама.” Karina Rbeihat
“When the people of a community are separated from one another, when they can no longer speak their language, or sing their songs together, the threads holding their culture begin to loosen. Against this threat of loss, culture is held tightly within each member of the tribe, guarded and tended, so that it may reappear when conditions permit. My work emerges out of this desire to remember, preserve and honor the culture that I belong to and that I love. Remembering the women in my family are at the center of this work. I draw from my memories of their movements, language, and clothing. I tell stories about their lives. Some of these stories reimagine the past, others dream of a future. Ultimately, I created these works to give me a sense of peace and inspiration in a world that seems currently difficult.”Lahib Jaddo
“Life can be a hollow mess. You can feel it is constantly against you. It is always present in a circle of constant movement, stress and chaos. Absolute and never ending, overthinking the mystery and possibly the regrets. But it is the center of humanity ... certainly, it is the pulse for the human existence, therefore it is precious”. Riman Meho
2021 Exhibitions
PHOTOGRAPHY SHOWCASE
Hussam Sleiby
30 January - 20 February 2021
Showcasing Hussam Sleiby's still-life photographs at Jacaranda Images.
Join us to enjoy a body of work, which its elements been collected from all around us, house gardens plants and vintage items used by Jordanian households decades ago, all together in a photograph.
SHOWCASING
Nadia Flaih
1 to 30 March 2021
Homeland and ruins......
As years go by we transform and return. We live the distances and beyond. Are we aware of our journey?
There are failures, victories, occupation and liberation, and protest.
With this confusion, we delve into the storm of facts and falsehoods and we try to hold onto our own love of our country.
We can only seize these memory ruins which we hold fiercely, hoping that our own memories will compensate for our loss.
SHOWCASING
Fadwa Ramadan
1 to 31 May 2021
Fadwa Ramadan’s delicate pencil and ink drawings, featuring the Amazigh script are the feature of Jacaranda Images’ May showcase. Ramadan consistently refers to the circle and the role it plays in nature and life, uncovering the movement which exists within it. The works are inspired from a 2014 journey to Siwa Oasis are from 2017, 2108 and 2020.
‘My trip to Siwa Oasis in Egypt in 2014 triggered a new found interest and passion for this language in its written form. It has inspired my art works. At first, I utilized Amazigh letters to create simple visual forms in monochrome, where the letters played secondary role as symbols in a larger formation, devout of linguistic meaning. My work then evolved to using Amazigh words and poetry, making them the object of my art and giving them center stage.’ Fadwa Ramadan
The Amazigh language is a family of closely related dialects indigenous to North Africa, considered an official language in Morocco (the only country that recognizes the language as such). It is also spoken in Algeria, Mali and Niger. The language has had a written tradition for over 2,200 years, influenced by Tifinagh, Arabic and Latin.
DAR ART
14 June- 5 July 2021
CALLIGRAPHY SHOWCASE
Ali Almasri
17 July - 14 August 2021
Inspired by Japanese minimalist aesthetics and their expressive calligraphy, Ali Almasri represents Arabic calligraphy in a contemporary manner while emphasizing its authenticity and tradition.
Join us on opining day Saturday 17 July 2021 and meet the artist.
I READ I WRITE is a photo project about Arab women and education.
This Exhibition features photographs in Gaza- Palestine, documenting the obstacles these women faced throughout their lives to gain access to education, and stressing the role that education played in their lives.
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Laura Boushnak will be singing her book "I READ I WRITE" at the opening Tuesday 14 September 2021 6 to 8pm.
HIDDEN WORLD
Juman Nimri
2 - 27 October 2021
"The world we live in is mysterious and unknown. No matter how aware you are of its meanings, you are still trapped in an illusion. I see myself and my relationship with life like a fish living in a big bubble, disappearing if the bubble bursts. I am sure the world around me is full of life, but I seem to be forever stuck in its nets and, with the patience of a good fisherman, capture the passing souls.
"I present in my new collection a proposal to the meaning of life through conversation and elements that blends the old and the new in different light where I face both reality and imagination at the same time." Juman Nimri
Join us for an artist talk with Charlotta Sparre in a showcase of work from her previous solo exhibitions with Jacaranda Images.
Charlotta Sparre return to Amman is welcomed and we invite you to catch up or meet and get to know this fascinating women and artist.
Wednesday 17 November 2021
Talk starts at 6pm.
Numbers are limited.
Our end of the year group exhibition
Its a ZOO in here!
A collection of animals by a collection of artists.
Saturday 4 December 2021 at 5pm
2020 Exhibitions
For the Sake of Love
Collaboration between Hussein Alazaat and Firas Majzoub
11 to 31 March 2020
Jacaranda Images proudly presents a unique collaboration between two artists who are passionate about calligraphy and colors.
Calligraphy artist Hussein Alazaat, and architectural designer Firas Majzoub join forces to create watercolor calligraphy using the wet-on-wet technique, sharing a new experience for both of them. They present us with a new perspective for Arabic calligraphy in a contemporary and non-traditional style, to create a dialogue with meaning of the letters, visually and spatially.
‘For the Sake of Love’ is inspired from mystical poetry, divine spinning, love and adoration. It communicates all stages of love through the correspondence between the character of a letter and its symbolism. This exhibition takes us on a journey within the sentiment of the text, the universe of color and the relationship of dissonance and attraction between the color values and the fluidity of watercolors.
‘For the Sake of Love’ is a new presentation of love’s relationship with time by studying the flow of color on paper, revealing layers of meaning in the artwork
Sketching Jordan
Adrian Lockhart
1 to 30 September 2020
Australian artist Adrian Lockhart visited Jordan for 10 days in 2019 to explore and sketch his way around the country.
The resulting paintings, completed upon his return to Australia, show the country as a rich and voluptuous destination, from the mountains of Wadi Rum to the lushness of the valleys of the north. The works on show at Jacaranda Images have a sketch like quality enhanced with rich tones of colour highlighting the focus of each work. Dramatic and dark blue skies over Wadi Rum could be midday or midnight; the green of a Jerash or Ajloun view reflect the richness of springtime when Adrian travelled; and the darkness of the shadowy rocks of Petra combined with earthy tones capture the walk through the Siq perfectly.
Adrian used a mixture of mediums on his original sketches – pen and ink, water colour, even tea bags and the rocks of Petra to create his marks. The exhibition works are these sketches transferred into acrylic and ink paintings, both recognizable and abstracted.
My Mate Dave
A modern interpretation of David Roberts’ Lithographs (part 1)
5 to 31 December 2020
British artist, Ben Playle takes a look at David Roberts’ classic and renowned lithographs giving them a 21st Century update with his interpretation.
In September of 1838, David Roberts, a Scottish artist with no formal training arrived in Alexandria, spending the next 12 months touring and sketching Egypt, Nubia, Jordan, the Holy land and Lebanon.
In Jordan, he sketched the lost city of Petra, which though well known to the Bedouin, was largely hidden to the wider world. With agreement of a local tribe, he was permitted to camp within Petra for five days. Within this time, he managed to complete sketches that would later be worked up in to 14 finished lithographs.
Over the next few years, sketches from Robert’s tour of the Middle East were worked up into a set of large-scale volumes which contained over 240 lithographs.
Ben Playle was inspired by David Robert’s lithographs, which show the architecture detail of Petra alongside everyday scenes of rural life. The original 19th century lithographs were black prints on an off-white background. However, many collectors later commissioned artists to add colour.
What started off as a stenciling challenge, has turned into a modern interpretation of David Robert’s masterpieces. Ben’s aim was to capture the light and shadow of the original lithographs, whilst bringing a fresh colour palette and new depths to these intricate scenes. He recreated the soft colour washes of the original pictures with the light touch of a spray can, cutting up to ten layers for each stencil and using over twenty colours.
2019 Exhibitions
Swapped at Birth
Ahmed Elkhalidi
At THE MILL Adelaide - Australia
12 - 23 February 2019
SWAPPED AT BIRTH Art Exhibition to be held in Adelaide
by Ahmed ElKhalidi with creative collaboration by Rua Hashlamoun
Jordanian artist Ahmed ElKhalidi documents the journey from Jordan to Australia in an exhibition to be part of the 2019 Adelaide Fringe Festival in Australia. Ahmed uses symbolic patches of memory in digital collages to explore places where two familiar environments are interchangeable.
ElKhalidi explores the crossover of life, perception and memories from his birth country and his adopted country. For ElKhalidi this was by choice, although he acknowledges that, for many others, this crossover is by circumstance.
Ahmed delves into memory, childhood experiences and family photographs from his Palestinian heritage. Using a blend of recent and historical photography, words, symbols and photojournalism, Ahmed reveals a personal story of identity where each environment is swapped, overlaid and blended.
Creative collaboration by Rua Hashlamoun records the works of two artists’ stories. They ask the viewer to question the memories the viewer might keep in the same situation. A visual storytelling, this exhibition both resonates with, and facilitates, connections for the many with similar experiences as migrants or refugees.
The exhibition was held in Amman in 2018 under the patronage of the Australian Ambassador. Its Adelaide iteration is made possible with the assistance of the Council of Australian-Arab Relations (CAAR), which supports projects that enhance economic, cultural and social relations between Australia and the Arab world.
CONFERENCE OF BIRDS
Zaina El Said &Mohammad Awwad
9 February to 7 March 2019
Zaina El Said and Mohammad Awwad jointly exhibit at Jacaranda Images, inspired by teachings of enlightened sages on the meaning of life.
The Persian poem 'The Conference of Birds' by the 12th century poet and Sufi thinker Farid Ud-Din Attar is the title of this exhibition and one of the inspirations for the works within it. The journey and the meaning of life have perplexed civilizations forever. Writers, religions, individuals have attempted to find an answer, with a handful of people understanding the question sufficiently to reach beyond it. Some call these the 'Enlightened' - Rumi, Hallaj, Rabia Al Adawia to name a few. Their exploration and teaching of the 'truth' recognises an energy and consciousness from within and that reaches beyond the limits of a two dimensional perception of life.
It is in consequence of the writings left by these sages that the idea of this exhibition came together. Using symbols and visual metaphors the works by Al Said and Awwad explore some of the journey led by the Hoopoe bird in the poem lending a painterly insight to these astounding yet timeless writings and teachings.
Conversation
Nehad Azzawi
13 March to 5 April 21019
The title of the exhibition describes Nihad Azzawi's concept as well as his methodology, using both printmaking and sculpture to find connections between form and content. Conversations happen at different levels - between mediums, symbols and subjects; between positive and negative space; between 2 dimensions and 3 dimensions.
The dramatic etching prints are large, monochromatic and bold. The circular shape is present, along with calligraphy and human forms, creating a dialogue between the elements used. Azzawi's sculptures are delicate in comparison but continue the theme where the human body creates a flow as well as conflict in shapes and interactions of space. To combine the two methods of representing a conversation creates it's own discourse.
CONVERSTION is an exhibition where the viewer can engage on different levels to consider how thoughts, form and materials are connected.
“Hikāyāt (stories)”
Tariq Dajani
13 April - 11 May 2019
As part of the 8th Image Festival Amman, Jacaranda Images welcomes the return of Tariq Dajani for his 5th solo exhibition at the gallery.
The exhibition consists of a series of rich hand-crafted photogravure prints combined with Arabic writings by poets Mahmoud Darwish and Samih al-Qasim, and mystics Rumi and Gibran, where the poetry adds an evocative dimension to the image.
Dajani uses old family photographs and other material to create poetic stories and ideas that reflect his personal feelings and thoughts, and his constant search for spiritual and earthly identity. The work is dark and evocative, hinting of separation, pain and loss. At the same time, the depth of human emotion displayed in the pictures provides future hope and optimism.
This will be the first exhibition of a series. All photogravure prints are limited to an edition of 3 copies only, and will be available for purchase.
A SENSE OF PLACE
Australian Aboriginal Art with Works from the Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts Collection
8 to 30 July 2019
At the Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts
Jacaranda Images is proud to present
A SENSE OF PLACE
Australian Aboriginal Art with Works from the Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts Collection.
The Aboriginal works have been selected along the broad themes recurrent in Aboriginal art – places, ceremonies, food, animals, natural elements and bush medicine. The works often show the physical interpretation of the land and more importantly, the metaphysical maps that sit over it. This is providing knowledge to those who are initiated and for future generations to take responsibility for their land and ceremonies. The seemingly abstract works, modern in design and colour, are in fact multilayered representations of a story. Working with Japinka Gallery in Perth Australia and the Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts, this joint exhibition shows Australian and Jordanian works that addressing the sense of place, in terms of colors, lines and touches. Thus, the joint art exhibition shows that art knows no borders and that it is the permanent means of bringing peoples and nations closer together.
This exhibition marks the beginning of NAIDOC Week 2019 (National Aborigines and Islanders Day Observance Committee). The theme of this year’s NAIDOC Week is “Voice, Treaty, Truth,” and our exhibition celebrates the history, culture and achievements of Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
BEYOND COLOUR
Fadi Haddadin
11 to 30 September 21019
Haddadin’s style expresses emotions to the extreme, dissolving the differences between the lines and colors. The form of expression identifies the human feelings and emotions through the gestures of colors. There is nothing shy about Haddadin’s work but there are complex subtleties with the layers and forms that are revealed with engaged observation.
Ammar Khammash says of Haddadin’s work:
“Haddadin hangs free shapes of color in mid space. Each of us look at these paintings and builds up a different space and order, according to some deep primordial visual perception process, possibly from our evolutionary past and survival strategies. These works represent a generative approach to art, where the artist gives works that are tools for us to build up our own results, in our deep visual and awareness conation. Fadi Haddadin stirs some visual/mental instincts we didn’t know that we had.”
The artist himself says of this work
“Imagination, emotion, feelings, energy forms, circles, lines and voids, always a white color full of endless possibilities, from here the remote thing starts appearing from the inside, it starts to appear by taking over a color space to impose itself on the white, followed by another to become an incomplete form, when its complete and the shapes begin to appear perhaps its people, faces..... Then quickly fades away, as the color movement continues within the work until the colour controls the shape and imposes its dominance by canceling all elements of the image, and begins to appear as colours, curves, blocks, shapes, lines and layers of colours.”
TISHREEN
Mo Rusan
5 to 29 October 2019
Tishreen marks the season of harvest. A time when women in brightly embroidered dresses gather to pick the olive trees, a time when the land rewards its keepers.
This exhibition is a celebration of our ancestral connection to the land. It is a celebration of our traditional embroidered “Toub” (dress), adorned with stitches which themselves are a reflection of the land, its vegetation, birds and animals. It is a reconstruction of tradition, a contemporary take on our visual identity...and a salute to the land and its people.
The exhibition features hand shaped & hammered metals (aluminum, brass and tin) as well as mixed work on paper.
50 YEARS OF GRAPHICS
YASER DWEIK
5 to 30 November 2019
This exhibition showing 50 Years of Yaser Dweik’s extraordinary original prints and works on paper cover traditional imagery through to contemporary calligraphy. It’s a lifetime of work from one of Jordan’s pioneer artists.
Jordanian artist Yasser Dweik was born in Palestine in 1940. He received his formal arts education at the Fine Art Academy in Baghdad in 1968, following this with printmaking at Brighton Polytechnic in the UK in 1972.
Returning to Jordan in the 1970s, Yasser, along with his contemporaries and great friends Mahmoud Taha, Nasr Abdel Aziz, Aziz Ammoura, Keram Al Nimri and Abdel Raouf Shamoun developed their various areas of expertise, crossing over disciplines and often collaborating together on works.
They were amongst the first Jordanian artists to have studied abroad and all returned to be involved in education of the arts and advance their own practices. Yaser has been a dedicated teacher and mentor to students since this time.
The subjects covered in Dweik’s prints encompass matters close to his heart. The elegant and delicate prints of birds and animals completed in the 1970s through to his more recent landscapes show the peaceful and hopeful side of Dweik.
Of course, this had been confronted with the despair and realities of the occupation of his homeland, the places of his heritage and the suffering of his Palestinian people. This work reveals the devastation of the physical environment as well as the pain and despair of the emotional state of the people.
Despite majoring in painting, his printmaking skills evolved to introduce various technical methods and styles to his contemporary work often using several techniques in the one print. The results show deft layers of colour, texture and patterns to tell the story.
Do You Still Remember!
TAMER Al AHMAR
7 to 31 December
Join us on a nostalgic, dazzling journey from the golden age of the Arabic cinema & music with artworks by the Jordanian artist Tamer Al Ahmar. Lessa Faker( do you still remember!) exhibition showcases his stunning collection of digital work which reimagines cultural icons in a modern way.
Iconic figures from Abdel Halim Hafez and Umm Kulthum to Frida Kahlo and Amy Winehouse are illustrated in unique ways that bring these stars into the modern age.
2018 Exhibitions
KIDS OF BOMBS
The World Is Watching...
Rafik Majzoub
20 February - 17 March 2018
"A kid's diary from the Middle East ... Now
I do not remember what is silence
How will my dreams be without the sound of bombing?"
Pretty Poisonous
Dina Fawakiri
20 March - 17 April 2018
Flowers are often taken at face value; they are beautiful and, outside of their natural habitat, are most often used as decorative elements or shows of affection. In Pretty Poisonous, artist Dina Fawakhiri places an unexpected lens on these common creatures showing the deceptive beauty of certain flowers which can also be poisonous.
By portraying flowers in delicate but extremely detailed views, the artist draws attention to the hidden toxicity that these examples contain. In this newly commissioned series, their hyper-stylized form and contrasting color alludes to elegance and attraction, while simultaneously painting a surreal picture of seduction.
Swapped at Birth
Ahmed Elkhalidi
18 April- 17 May 2018
As part of the 7th Image Festival Amman, Jacaranda Images is hosting an exhibition by one of Jordan’s, and now Australia’s, dynamic young artists Ahmed El Khalidi.
The Image Festival's theme in 2018 is "HOME" and Ahmed's exhibition is titled ‘Swapped At Birth’ documenting, though photography and graphics, the differences and similarities of the artist's original home Jordan and his new home Australia.
The BIG BLUE
Collective Exhibition
11 August - 14 September 2018
A collection of etchings, lithographs screen prints and digital prints in blue hues to keep you cool during the hot summer months.
Our summer show is selected from our collection of prints in cool blue hues by international and Jordanian artists including Jamil Hamoudi, Nouri Al Rawi, Fadi Haddadin, Hazem Nemroui, Sina Ata, Victor Vasarely, Adrian Lockhart, Ludwig Sander and more.
GLOWING HORIZON
Ruba Abu Shousheh
18 September - 13 October 2018
In Abu Shousheh’s exhibition the horizon glows, as she says 'within that line gleams the far and the near, from here and there.'
Ruba’s landscapes depict a spiritual connection between the ground and the sky. Horizontal and vertical forms hide within their intersections the symbols of structured geometrical embellishments that reflect the earthly connection we have with our world. These represent all the laws and rules that firmly govern the lives of people and the universe. Softening this cosmic strictness, the artist represents a new perspective by adding botanical elements that have a musicality to them through their curves. From the combination of forms and the concepts represented, one can search for one's soul towards the glowing horizon.
On the horizon there’s a city not far from sight, within the space of a letter, the distance of a line, near yet far. A horizon that the dancing horizontal lines tell the story of. The city and its dreams and hopes with the lines stretching and connecting to weave a harmony in balance and unity.
Between here and there… there is my city …this is my city. Ruba Abu Shosheh
Bayt Al Graphic
Collective Exhibition
24 October- 16 November 2018
11 emerging artists show a selection of works undertaken with Bayt al Graphic studio.
Bayt al Graphic's first SALON show launches the works of 11 very different artists. Each artist represented in this exhibition has their own style with works ranging from etchings, to digital art to mixed media paintings and sculptures. Sara Rashdan, Hamid Sharif, Ruth Jackson and Nesreen Subeh present etchings while Sarah Hatahet explores her digital portraits with an explosion of colour. Tina Omran's mixed media paintings are a fantasy of tones while Muna Amareen and Yasser Alwreikat's drawings are detailed observations.
Bayt al Graphic
Bayt al Graphic is a printmaking studio opened in 2017 located in Jabal el Weibdeh, Jordan. Under the tutelage of Jordanian printmaker Hakim Jamain, students and artists produce an array of prints, fine art and sculpture.
Hakim's studies at the Academy of Fine Arts "Pietro Vannucci", Perudia Italy and the Milan Fine Arts Academy, Italy formed the basis of his own education. Further specialization in Print Making at The Hague Royal Academy in Holland led to his involvement in teaching printmaking in Jordan and Egypt and the pursuit of his own artistic career.
FIGURATIVELY SPEAKING
Hanan Khalil
4-31 December
For 12 months Hanan Khalil's fans have been delighted with her witty illustrations of Arabic idioms. Now over 80 of the original works will be on display in Jacaranda Images December exhibition.
As a visual thinker, Hanan Khalil uses her vivid sense of colour and skill of drawing expressive faces to document her daily observations of the sayings and phrases taken so much for granted. Idioms, metaphors and expressions are abundant in all cultures and they seem to be collectively understood and mysteriously exchanged by the same society. In this exhibition they come to life with characters we all know!
We quickly relate to those words or phrases that add humor to dark or smart and funny situations. Khalil's drawings reveal how much we judge each other and how much of a negative impact this could have on the people around us.
"I believe that language sometimes creates a barrier between people, hence my work to bring people from different cultures closer to each other. I truly believe that understanding any culture’s inside jokes, puns, and idioms boosts our sense of oneness."
A booklet of the sketches from 'Figuratively Speaking' will be launched at the opening of the exhibition.
2017 Exhibitions
PAINT IT RED
Collective Exhibition
February 8 -28 2017
Paintings, prints and posters from young to emerged artists are brought together showing red in their work. Artists represented are, Ahmed El Khalidi, Cathie Boucher, Charlotta Sparre, Dina Fawakhiri, Dodi Tabbaa, Hana Saudi, Hazem Nemrawi, Heidi Venamore, Jehad Al Ameri, Lizzy Newcomb, Luke Gray, Mary Abu Zaid, Mike V. Derderian, Mohamed Abou Elnaga, Mohammad Rusan, Mohammed Al Shammarey, Nehad Azzawi, Rosa Brugulat Guiteras, Rosella Namok, Samah Hijawi, Sina Ata, Susie Perring , Tamer Al Ahmar, Wedad Al Naser and Yasser Dwiak.
LEGENDS & HEROS
Zaina El-Said
March 1 - 30 2017
Zaina El Said's new exhibition is inspired from the idea of a single hero who existed since dawn of humanity. A hero who transforms in appearance but ultimately represents the same set of values and beliefs celebrated and revered by the masses. Mythological characters stand witness to this idea; there are heroes and legends that share identical characteristics, yet originate from totally different worlds and cultures.
A STORY ABOUT HER
Charlotta Sparre
April 2 - 30 2017
Through her photographs Charlotta Sparre shares her love and passion for the Middle East and North Africa. Building on a technique of double exposed photographs, the combined pictures create something both familiar and dreamlike - this time in “A Story About Her”, an exhibition on identity and “womanhood” in the Middle East North Africa”.
IMPRINTS
Hamad Sharif
May 26 - June 30 2017
Hamad’s signature style is a fusion between East and West. Domes feature prominently in his artwork. The dome signifies a spiritual journey of peace from deep within the soul as it searches for identity and sense in this chaotic world. Hamad cites modern art, design, and architecture, as his main inspiration. He is influenced by the Bauhaus and De Stijl movements
LINES WITHIN
Dia Batal
October 10 -31 2017
This exhibition explores ideas of home, delving into the meaning of place and home in an age of forced migration and immigration – of home as an internal orientation where the idea of belonging to a place may no longer exist. The artist is interested in creating artwork that examines the significance of involuntary departures from a homeland through archived material relating to the above themes, such as the map of the Sykes Picot agreement, in order to trace shifting landscapes.
SKETCHED
Collective Exhibition
October 10 -31 2017
An artist's preliminary drawings give an insight to how they see a painting - the composition, shadows and forms develop in sketches and detailed drawings to bring together the final masterpiece.
Jacaranda Images was please to present a number of artists' work, that may have developed into masterpieces, or maybe they are beautiful enough on their own. Works in pencil, ink, charcoal, pastel and watercolour are shown in different styles.
Artists represented are Aileen Abdo, Ayah Abu Gazaleh, Barbara Rowell, Basel Uriqat, Dina Fawakhiri, Elmer Dumlao, Ghadeer Abu Bokha, Judith Hill, Juman Nimri, Lutfi Zayed, Mary Abuzaid, Mike Derderian, Nissa Raed, Reem Odeh, Sama Shahrouri, Sarah Hatahet, Shadi Wahbi.
2016 Exhibitions
BOTANICALS
Heidi Venamore
March 9 - 31 2016
Intertwining art and science, Heidi Venamore brings nature to life on the page. Her work is technical and detailed, with a focus on accuracy alongside the natural beauty of the plant form. She uses art to portray the vibrance and cleverness of nature through authentic portraits of plants and flowers which translate their habit, colour and form onto the page. Her objective is to attract one's attention with a vibrant, arresting composition, then draw in the viewer to ever-closer inspection of the work as the layers reveal the secrets of the plant.
BEYOND
Nabil Boutros
April 4 - 30 2016
In the exhibition 'Beyond' Boutros questions the place that words have in our relationship with our world. With calligraphy overlaying various images, a dilemma is created whether to focus on the imagery or the words, and is it possible to view them with equal understanding?
TEA & COFFEE IN OLD CAIRO
Cathie Boucher
July 13 - 31 2016
Cathie Boucher is a native of the US, but travels with her husband 's work have taken her to Cairo and now Amman. Her work includes realistic and detailed imagery but also incorporates textural details she enjoys so much. This series of works are studies of moods one might experience when enjoying tea and coffee. The coffee may accompany the scene or vice versa.
INVERSE
Georgia Hill
August 30 - September 22 2016
Georgia Hill's new series of works aim to push past our tendency to seek a clear final message in lettering-based works. Influenced by her own recent interests in structures and material based manipulation, these new artworks explore the shifting value of legibility by utilising themes of cycles, repetition, abstraction and experimental compositions in Hill's distinctive black and white aesthetic.
OPTIC VIBES
Mohammad Awwad
December 7 - 31 2016
In Mohammad Awwad's second solo exhibition at Jacaranda Images, the artist takes on themes of politics, economics and culture in his works. Using collaged images to address a number of aspects of contmporary life, Mo Awwad's highly detailed prints are sometime joyful, sometimes sad. Through Awwad's attempts to explain these contradictions within the parameters of our everyday existence, the reality can be troubling or simply pleasing. Awwad aims to present a complete explanation for the viewer in accessible visual terms.
2016 Exhibitions
BOTANICALS
Heidi Venamore
March 9 - 31 2016
Intertwining art and science, Heidi Venamore brings nature to life on the page. Her work is technical and detailed, with a focus on accuracy alongside the natural beauty of the plant form. She uses art to portray the vibrance and cleverness of nature through authentic portraits of plants and flowers which translate their habit, colour and form onto the page. Her objective is to attract one's attention with a vibrant, arresting composition, then draw in the viewer to ever-closer inspection of the work as the layers reveal the secrets of the plant.
BEYOND
Nabil Boutros
April 4 - 30 2016
In the exhibition 'Beyond' Boutros questions the place that words have in our relationship with our world. With calligraphy overlaying various images, a dilemma is created whether to focus on the imagery or the words, and is it possible to view them with equal understanding?
TEA & COFFEE IN OLD CAIRO
Cathie Boucher
July 13 - 31 2016
Cathie Boucher is a native of the US, but travels with her husband 's work have taken her to Cairo and now Amman. Her work includes realistic and detailed imagery but also incorporates textural details she enjoys so much. This series of works are studies of moods one might experience when enjoying tea and coffee. The coffee may accompany the scene or vice versa.
INVERSE
Georgia Hill
August 30 - September 22 2016
Georgia Hill's new series of works aim to push past our tendency to seek a clear final message in lettering-based works. Influenced by her own recent interests in structures and material based manipulation, these new artworks explore the shifting value of legibility by utilising themes of cycles, repetition, abstraction and experimental compositions in Hill's distinctive black and white aesthetic.
OPTIC VIBES
Mohammad Awwad
December 7 - 31 2016
In Mohammad Awwad's second solo exhibition at Jacaranda Images, the artist takes on themes of politics, economics and culture in his works. Using collaged images to address a number of aspects of contmporary life, Mo Awwad's highly detailed prints are sometime joyful, sometimes sad. Through Awwad's attempts to explain these contradictions within the parameters of our everyday existence, the reality can be troubling or simply pleasing. Awwad aims to present a complete explanation for the viewer in accessible visual terms.
2015 Exhibitions
BETHLEHEM
THE CITY. THE PEOPLE. THE WALL
Sina Ata
March 25 - April 15 2015
During 2014, Sina Ata had the privilege of working in Bethlehem for several months. As an artist does, he documented his time, experience and observations of people's lives and their environment. Without a studio to paint, Sina photographed the walls that are Bethlehem, from the ancient laneways to the illegal barrier that currently confines the city. Sina develops the concept from observation to immersion, then pares back the visual experience to its minimal form in the paintings which were completed on his return to Amman.
DO YOU VESPA?
Collective Exhibition
May 2 - 17 2015
Vespa has long been associated with art commissioning the great graphic artists of their time such as Raymond Sauvignac and Bernard Villemot to create their promotional campaigns in the 1950s and 60s. With this foundation, Jacaranda Images in association with Darwzeh Motors the Official Vespa dealer in Jordan has commissioned 4 of Amman's brightest graphic designers for this exhibition to produce limited edition prints which will sit side by side with reproductions of some of Vespa's classic advertising images.
KITAB AL-FILAHA
Tariq Dajani
November 3 - 26 2015
An interest in the ancient book Kitab al-Filaha, combined with an appreciation of early Spanish still-life paintings from Velázquez to Goya, provided the inspiration for this latest exhibition by Tariq Dajani. His black and white studies are presented as a series of beautiful, hand-crafted intaglio prints, a rare and highly-skilled method of etching photographic images onto metal plates and then hand-printing them onto paper.
DIVERSIONS
Lutfi Zayed
December 9 - 31 2015
Lutfi Zayed is a graphic designer who prefers not to suffer in a corporate world but let his mind roam freely exploring concepts and ideas for his own amusement. While following the disciplines of aesthetic and design, Lutfi lets the characters in his head loose. In his first solo exhibition of his prints, Lutfi follows two directions. The first is more conceptual with deceptively simple compositions where wit and wordplay are achieved with visual puns, much along the lines of the graphic designers of the 1950s such as the legendary Raymond Savignac.
2014 Exhibitions
SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL
Collective Exhibition
February 5 - 24 2014
Jacaranda Images exhibits a collection of works celebrating small works by a variety of artists. It is an invitation for close inspection of detail that makes smaller artworks a joy to contemplate. Paintings, prints and sculptures from Australia, London, Spain and Jordan are brought together showing that small is indeed beautiful. Artists represented include international artists Rosa Brugelat, Lizzie Newcombe, Suzy Perring, Louise Davies and from Jordan: Tariq Dajani, Sina Ata, Basel Uraiqat, Ahmed El Khalidi, Saleh Abu Shindi, Dodi Tabbaa, Anees Maani, and Mohammed Abu Zraiq.
ORIENTALISM
Mohamed Abouelnaga
March 5 - 31 2014
Mohamed Abouelnaga dismantles the collective and historical ‘Orientalism’, the western view of the Orient, to represent it in the female form, which was so often used in the traditional painting of the Orientalists. When viewing the Orientalist paintings of the nineteenth century, Abouelnaga felt he was in a surreal world blending realistic elements and an imaginary fantastic world. Semi nude women standing in markets where no one takes any notice, the paintings of Da Vinci or David could easily have been transported romantically to an Arab setting.
KOHL
Kholoud Mohammed
May 7 - 31 2014
Kholoud Mohammed's first exhibition in Amman reflects the state of women in an ideal world where peace, confidence and beauty reign. The monochromatic works possess strength from their boldness in design and simplicity of the subjects' poses. Reminiscent of traditional Japanese compositions, the hand drawn illustrations could easily be woodcuts from the times when 'Japonism' was the latest influence on for artists like Aubrey Beardsley, Mucha and others of the mid to late 1800s.
PHANTASMAGORIA
Mohammad Awwad
December 3 - 31 2014
In his first exhibition in Jordan, Mohammad Awwad creates fantastic sequences of what appears to be haphazardly associative imagery but are in fact addressing critical issues of today. A ‘phantasmagoria’, in late 18th century France, was a series of illusions created by magic lanterns shown for the public. They often used frightening images which the public flocked to see, no doubt to be scared out of their wits and perhaps as a way of dealing with the upheavals of the French Revolution. Mohammad Awwad’s images are not frightening, but the subjects he chooses to explore often are, with their consequences and how they affect the world today.
2013 Exhibitions
PAPER BOATS
Mohammed Shammarey
February 12 - March 10 2013
Mohammed Shammarey launches his latest exhibition ‘Paper Boats’ at Jacaranda Images with a multifaceted exhibition of prints, book art and video installation as part of the Institut Francais ‘Image Festival #3’. The reference to the paper boats extends beyond childhood games and dreams to the prevalent issue of immigration where boats were the earliest mode of transport for early immigrants from Europe and Africa to the USA either by choice or forced. The exhibition is somewhat biographical as Shammarey has himself immigrated to the USA to flee the ‘bleeding homeland’ of Iraq, a decision which leaves a ‘hollow feeling of deep uprooting’.
HOMAGE TO MAHMOUD DARWISH
Mona Saudi & Dia Batal
March 26 - April 14 2013
One of the region's foremost sculptors and printmaker, Mona Saudi, joins with her daughter, spatial designer Dia Batal for their first exhibition together at Jacaranda Images in Amman. To honour the late Mahmoud Darwish and to coincide with Palestinian Land Day on March 30, the works are inspired by Darwish's poetry. Both artist's calligraphy and drawings add a new dimension to the words of Darwish.
THE PIXEL LIGHTBOX SOCIETY
Dodi Tabbaa
May 19 - June 2 2013
Dodi Tabbaa's latest exhibition uses the geometry of pixels, to create a luminous exhibition of prints that glow with almost neon shades of energy and enhanced color lighting up each square, giving each an individual burst of an aura-like beam. Revisiting her exploration with pop art, Tabbaa takes her work to a new level of by referencing digital pixels, LED lighting and high definition effects . Dodi admits influence from Japanese video games, especially from the artist Keiji Inafune, but there are other references as well, to the classic colour theorists and op and mininalist artists of the 20th century such as Josef Albers, Dan Flavin or Victor Vasareley.
WEST BANKEAST BANK
Charlotta Sparre
June 18 - July 17 2013
Through her photographs Charlotta Sparre shares her love and passion for the Middle East. Building on a technique of double exposed photographs, the combined pictures become both familiar and confusing. Few places in the world have been and are as much of a crossroad as the Middle East. Home to the ancient high cultures around the Mediterranean, birthplace to the three main monotheistic religions, and an historical and cultural melting pot where, throughout history, people from different backgrounds have met, cohabited, fought wars, loved and lived.
CARVING SHADOWS
Atelier Uraiqat
September 8 - 30 2013
Carving Shadows at Jacaranda Images is an exhibition of Atelier Uraiqat’s latest work exploring the relationship of geometry and design. It is a collection of objects that can equally be furniture, sculpture and art. The exhibition explores the possibilities of pattern and material and the effects of light and challenge the notions of stability, movement, perception, and physicality. Each work explores the unlimited through the exploitation of the limited, finding complexity within simplicity.
GO BACK TO WHERE YOU CAME FROM
Ahmed Elkhalidi
November 26 - December 15 2013
Ahmed Khalidi's exhibition documents the journey of the artist from Palestine / Jordan to Australia and back again, confronting the dilemma of where to call home. In the form of mixed media paintings, the artist explores the idea of belonging and identity, are they relative and changeable depending on one's geographical location? The work delves into memory, childhood experiences, family photographs and stories as well as recent political history. Ahmed reflects on the different emotional and physical journeys he has gone through, going back to the 1950s and drawing on his family's own struggles.
2012 Exhibitions
A DREAM OF FOUR CITIES
Charlotta Sparre
March 13 - 31 2012
In this exhibition, Charlotta Sparre shares her love of four cities through her photographs. Building on the concept of a dream, a meeting of different realities, with pictures being combined, the results are both familiar and confusing, Charlotta captures the essence of each city in a unique exhibition at Jacaranda Images. Fascinated by an accidental double exposure photograph that her mother created when she was a child, Charlotta Sparre now applies the technique deliberately to her favourite Middle Eastern cities – Amman, Beirut, Cairo and Damascus.
NOSTALGIA
Ghassan Ghaib &Ahmed Al-Bahrani
April 3 - 24 2012
From a generation that has witnessed two wars and carried the effects from reality to art, the latest exhibition by Ghassan Ghaib, 'Hanine' (Nostalgia), coincides with the launch of his book Wissadat Al Malak/The Angel’s Pillow, an artistic autobiography. With fellow Iraqi artist, sculptor Ahmed Al Bahrani, 'HANINE' is about the constant emotions associated with living in exile from a place that is dear to the heart. The state of 'longing' is a sentimental but powerful force that infiltrates the psyche and creates a framework of creative influence.
CIRQUE DU HABALEENO
Mike V. Derderian
July 3 - 20 2012
Mike V. Derderian has entertained a cult following of cartoon and fantasy aficionados in Amman for several years with everything from science fiction characters to satirical statements, under both his own name and the signature ‘Sardine’. Working predominantly with pen and paper, Mike develops characters and themes from his vivid imagination and brings them to life, not only in illustration but often with an entire story supporting them which ‘reflect his sensibilities as a human and individual’.
XRAY
Rafik Majzoub
October 9 - 31 2012
Rafik Majzoub landed like a tornado on the Beirut art scene in the mid 1990s, creating images that reflected the intellectual and political climate of then. Since then, Majzoub’s work continues to question and peel back the social veneers of society and himself, none more so than in his new works, titled ‘X RAY’.
2011 Exhibitions
WASAT AL BALAD
Mohammed Shammarey
January 17 - February 17 2011
In 1991 Mohammed Al Shammarey was not an occasional tourist passing through Amman, nor was he a local looking for a good bargain at wholesale shops wandering through the narrow alleys. His first step upon leaving Baghdad, seeking a direction to an obscure future, took him to Downtown Amman. On the balcony of The "Hotel Central" he planned an un-chartered journey, to an unknown and remote destination, not knowing where his final steps would lead.
FOSSILS OF TIME AND LIGHT
Ammar Khammash
March 18 - 31 2011
Ammar Khammash is continuously curious of, and absorbed by his surroundings and its context in time. This collection of photographs of children bathing in a hot spring are more than a moment that has passed, they are evocative of the energy and the mystery of existence and non existence. The works show at Jacaranda Images from the 8th March. Still photography, contrary to the nature of ‘still’ is continuously changing its purpose, meaning and definition. The further camera technology develops, it affects producing reality in terms of motion and 3D possibilities. Photography has moved closer towards abstraction and art by increasingly getting rid of its documentation responsibilities.
AFTER THE FALL AND EXPULSION
Iyad Kan'aan
April 19 - 30 2011
In Iyad Kan’aan’s latest work, he refers to an influential work from Michelangelo to create a contemporary analogy for the exploration of knowledge. The works show at Jacaranda Images from the 9th April. When he first observed the Sistine Chapel, especially Michelangelo’s ‘The Fall of Man’ and the ‘Expulsion from the Garden of Eden’, at 8 years old, Iyad Kan’aan did not know how memorable the works would be for him. The images have constantly been referred to in his works, paintings and collages. “The artworks were an introduction to a long series of paintings and experiences, in an aesthetics continuum that affects various aspects of the painting and my life”.
SAQ'R
Tariq Dajani
September 20 - October 19 2011
While the precise origin of the history of falconry are lost in time, the keeping of falcons in the middle East is as ancient as the emergence of its civilizations and goes back some 4000 years. This series of photographs is an artistic interpretation of the majestic beauty and splendor of the hunting falcon. Each image consists of detailed studies of this magnificent bird of prey with its razor-sharp, curved beak and deadly talons, piercing eyes and delicate plumage of feathers encasing its sleek body.
2010 Exhibitions
SCULPTING THE WATER
Bader Mahasneh
January 5 - 31 2010
Bader Mahasneh goes to Aqaba as the featured artist at The Aqaba House, showing photographic work drawn from his experiments with the human form. In 'Sculpting the Water' Jordanian artist Bader Mahasneh continues to explore the transparency of life with his photographs. The water shapes are sculptured figurines, humanlike, with life and movement, captured in time for the photograph. Each form has its own character, with a future rather than a past.
HOMMAGE a SAINTJOHN PERSE
Mona Sudi
February 2 - 28 2010
Inspired by French poet, Saint-John Perse ‘Chant Pour un Equinoxe’, the series of screen prints contains 13 drawings by Mona Saudi in an edition of 77. Lines from the verses such as ‘A singing rises within us which has not known its source and will have no estuary in death: ‘ are illustrated with sensitivity and oriented to Mona Saudi’s distinctive sculptural style. The original text of the poem is in French, and its translations in English, Arabic, Chinese, Russian, Italian, German and Spanish are included in this album
VOCABULARY OF SHAPE AND COLOR
Saleh Abu Shindi
May 4 - 31 2010
Saleh Abu Shindi has explored a range of styles and techniques over his artistic career spanning more than 50 years. In his more recent work from 2006 to 2008 he embraces colour and lets his emotions dictate the works. These predominantly small works are intense bursts of energy and expression with complex layers of colour, line and movement. The results are harmonious pieces showing, in some cases, the sensuous qualities of the paint and, in others, a subtle building of the forms. Although the works are a break from Abu Shindi’s more recognizable drawings and paintings of landscapes, village scenes and spiritual explorations, these show a continuation of Abu Shindi’s journey through very individual and intuitive expression while drawing on his influences over the years.
MEMORIES OF WARAND LOVE
Ghadeer Saeed
August 3 - September 30 2010
Ghadeer Saeed’s haunting digital collages are reflections on love and its memories. The works show at Jacaranda Images during August and September. Using photographic archives of the last century, Ghadeer Saeed condenses visual and historic memories in works that evoke nostalgia, and a range of emotions. The images compose and decompose in flashes, similar to interwoven cinematic scenes …interrupted, contrasted as well as integrated to convey the complex emotions of the human being everywhere. Anguish, waiting, loneliness and hope are all associated with intense moments of intrigue, strange places and contradicting senses, somewhere between war and love.
EXPOSURES
Bader Mahasneh
October 19 - 31 2010
Never afraid to explore the possibilities of various mediums for his art, in this exhibition at Jacaranda Images, Bader Mahasneh integrates his penchant for photography with his previous examination of the human form through his ink drawings, paintings and resin sculptures. Bader has been long attracted to photography and the possibilities that can be achieved with both long and very fast exposures and these images explore this medium fully. These large photographic works bring together the interdisciplinary approach of Bader's work, capturing the human form in motion while drawing influence from 'action paintings' of the abstract expressionist movement.
2009 Exhibitions
INK ON PAPER
Bader Mahasneh
July 1 - 31 2009
Bader’s ink drawings on paper are figures without substance, almost transparent with a deliberate mystery. A general human shape, with layers of ink make them as complicated as real men and women are. The figures are not reduced to objects on the paper purely for the viewer to look at, but for the viewer to see through, to wonder what elements make up the faceless person.
30 DAYS IN LUXOR
Hakim Jumain
October 6 - 31 2009
Hakim Jamain displays 13 etchings inspired by Ancient Egypt at Jacaranda Images during October. This exhibition explores the relationship between artist, environment and ancient history though the delicate etching process. Hakim has been influenced by his surroundings, both tangible and intangible, as well as the remarkable monuments that are Luxor. Palm trees, geckos, and hieroglyphics sit side by side in the works reflecting the complete experience of the artist in this unique environment.
ABOVE WADI RUM
Tariq Dajani
November 3 - 30 2009
Continuing with their plan to showcase a body of work from artists on a monthly basis, Jacaranda Images displays Tariq Dajani's new fine art photographs 'ABOVE WADI RUM' from 3 to 30 November. Tariq Dajani's view of Wadi Rum is not one we know well as he applies his style to the photographs, where the landscape is familiar yet fresh to our eyes.
2008 Exhibitions
CONTEMPORARY AUSTRALIAN INDIGENOUS PRINTS
Collective Exhibition
October 7 - 31 2008
Indigenous Australian art is art produced by Indigenous Australians, covering works that pre-date European colonization as well as contemporary art by Aboriginal Australians based on traditional culture It has a history which covers over 40,000 years, and represents a large range of native traditions and styles. These have been studied in recent decades and gained increased international recognition. Aboriginal Art covers a wide medium including painting on leaves, wood carving, rock carving, sculpture, and ceremonial clothing, as well as artistic embellishments found on weaponry and also tools.
ASIL
Tariq Dajani
March 16 - 31 2008
Tariq Dajani's choice of the Arabian, the oldest and purest breed of horse, as a subject to portray in his art, results from a life-longfascination with these magnificent creatures and a recognition of their importance in the history and culture of the ancient Middle East and Arabia. Originally bred by the nomadic Bedouin tribes as a horse to be used in battle, the pure-blooded Arabian evolved over hundreds of years into a creature of beauty and strength. The care of the Bedu for their horses, coupled with the harsh conditions of the environment produced an animal of distinctive intelligence and sensitivity, whose power and stamina enabled it to endure the harshest conditions and demands.
