Gillian Mciver

A World of Portraits – Exhibition at Wekalet Behna Sept 2014

This is worth a good look – Nazir Tanbouli’s wonderful portraits from a recent exhibition. Enjoy!!

Nazir Tanbouli

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Me at Wekalet Behna with two of my pieces. Photo by Butheina Shalan

My exhibition programme in Alexandria, Egypt (FULL CIRCLE)  featured a show of portraits on paper. I am always making portraits, faces, heads,  figures – all of them are based on observation of the people I see and meet. For this show I presented large scale works I made a few years ago, from a series called Baptism of Hailstones, together with new work I made for the show. One series of the new work is of faces peering out of darkness… anyway, here they are:

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BAPTISM OF HAILSTONES SERIES

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NEW PORTRAITS porriats

ME WITH SOME OF THE VISITORSportpotrys

… COMING OUT OF DARKNESSteeth

UNTITLEDwekaletTHE VENUE, WEKALET BEHNA, IS A FANTASTIC SPACE AND A REALLY REMARKABLE PLACE – IT IS PART OF THE ART ORGANISATION GUDRAN WHICH HAS 3 CENTRES…

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Hi I'm The Art traveller. I'm a filmmaker, writer and art historian. The Art Traveller is my blog, where I write about travelling the world and looking at art. I'm interested in how the environment and history of a place affect how we see art. My work includes documentary film-making, short films and artists' video, often exploring historical events or places. My interest in art history and film led me, in 2016 to write "Art History for Filmmakers" published by Bloomsbury Press, a book exploring how filmmakers can and do use paintings from the past to inspire and create visual story telling.