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Sydney: Kurdish artist won the Liverpool
Art Society's Annual Art Exhibition Scholarship
25.7.2007
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July
25, 2007
Sydney, -- Kurdish artist Sardar
Sinjawi won the Liverpool Art Society's Annual Art
Exhibition Scholarship.
He said he had always dreamed of studying art, but
that he had not been accepted into art school in
Iraqi Kurdistan on racial grounds.
Mr Sinjawi, who is 43, said that creativity had
always been his main driving force.
He came to Australia in 1996 and has since become a
bachelor of visual arts at Sydney University's
College of Creative Arts.
He said that his winning work, After a Beam of
Light, was a three-dimensional and mixed media piece
that explored art through geometry.
''I started experimenting with painting and drawing
with different materials including ink, charcoal,
pastel, X-ray and others in the early 1980s,'' Mr
Sinjawi said. |
Tiny dimensions- Liverpool artist Sadar Sinjawi says
it's important for him to comment on the
industrialised and technological world we live in
today. |
''From this, I produced a series of 12 works, using
different media but with a common thread, called A
Beam of Light. ''Like a beam of light itself, that
collection showed me the path that my art will take
and that's why I have called all my subsequent works
After a Beam of Light.''
Mr Sinjawi said he used lots of different materials,
even rubbish.
''Most of them are found on the street trash,
whatever I happen to come by but some of it I even
buy especially,'' he said.
Artist John Peart, who judged the event, said that
Mr Sinjawi's work was ''visually very strong'' and
that he was ''impressed by its intensity.''
Short biography
Sardar’s career in the arts has unfolded in
Australia and oversees, following his engagement in
art and culture in Kurdistan and Iraq. His arts and
cultural practices have been developed through a
range of art activities including art production,
facilitation of seminars and conferences with broad
cultural agenda and community cultural development
work.
Artist's statement
Did I discover myself or art first? Such an
instinctive question that never have left mewith a
single answer. It grows with me as I grow. I am
faced with the dilema of painting as a discussion
and technical problem in times of high technology,
in a postmedium era.
I work primarily with abstract art, three
dimensional objects. I use different mediumes,
mostly found objects, to create contemporary
sculpture. I strongly believe that art should be
pure, spiritual and left untoched by something that
pure art does not want to hold.
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