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Welcome To Iraq Catalogue

The Welcome to Iraq catalogue with texts by curator Jonathan Watkins and RUYA chairman Tamara Chalabi is available to purchase online through the Ikon Gallery. It is illustrated with images of selected work and recent photographs of everyday life in Baghdad, Babylon, Basra, Erbil and Sulaimaniya.
Interview 

A time for change: Bassim al Shaker

One of the youngest artists in the Pavilion of Iraq at the 55th Venice Biennale, Bassim Al-Shaker (b. 1986, Baghdad, Iraq) is stylistically one of its most traditional, making oil paintings that would very much impress his teachers at the local academy. Eschewing any sign of avant-gardism he paints scenes of the southern marshlands, suggesting a lifestyle…
 

Bassim Al-Shaker

One of the youngest artists in the exhibition, Bassim Al-Shaker (b. 1986, Baghdad, Iraq) is stylistically one of its most traditional, making oil paintings that would very much impress his teachers at the local academy. Eschewing any sign of avant-gardism he paints scenes of the southern marshlands, suggesting a lifestyle there of unbroken tradition. The recent…