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Manar Al Shouha
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Lot 47
Price Realised:
€4,800
Estimate:
€3,000 - €5,000
Manar Al Shouha, b.1995
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Mixed media on canvas, 59" x 39 1/4" (150 x 100cm), signed and dated 2023.
Manar Al Shouha is a young Syrian painter who came to Ireland from Damascus less than two years ago. In that short...
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Lot 47
Manar Al Shouha
DINNER AT THE ARTS CLUB
Lot 47
Manar Al Shouha
DINNER AT THE ARTS CLUB
Estimate:
€3,000 - €5,000
Manar Al Shouha, b.1995
DINNER AT THE ARTS CLUB
Mixed media on canvas, 59" x 39 1/4" (150 x 100cm), signed and dated 2023.
Manar Al Shouha is a young Syrian painter who came to Ireland from Damascus less than two years ago. In that short time she has shared joint exhibitions at Rathfarnham Castle and the Cashel Arts Festival, shown at the High Lane's Gallery in Drogheda and in the RHA open exhibition in 2023 when she was awarded the Contemporary Irish Art Society's award for an Emerging Artist and was nominated for the 2024 Hennessy Craig Portrait prize.
She had a precocious start to her career in war-torn Damascus, showing in collective group exhibitions while still a student and immediately after graduation in 2016, in the National Centre for Visual Arts, Samer Kozah Gallery and the Al Hekmieh Art Gallery, Damascus, between 2018 and 202. In 2019 she was invited to show as part of Beirut Art Week in Lebanon.
Manar Al Shouha is very proud of her city's history, 'capital of the Umayyads, the dream of Abbasids, and one of the oldest capital cities of the Islamic world' as she described it, yet her work does not immediately lead one to think of Islamic art. Instead it reflects Damascus's outward looking, cosmopolitan culture. Life drawing was not permitted for women students in the Art School of the University of Damascus yet her practice is unequivocally based on the human figure and on drawing, in which she connects to the European figurative traditions of Honore Daumier, Egon Schiele and Pablo Picasso with a nod to Francis Bacon's palette along the way. Her work is not overtly political but its fluid, shadowy, layered imagery is deeply imbued with the sufferings of her native city, often symbolically represented through the figure of a woman who has endured centuries of history and will survive its present difficulties with dignity.
Since coming to Ireland she has widened her subject matter to reflect the atmosphere of Dublin's pubs and Georgian architecture and is at her best when presenting sharply observed social interactions such as dinner at the Arts Club or an exchange of confidences in a Dublin bar, painted in distinctive, confident sweeping brushstrokes and lines that pulsate with nervous energy. Despite the challenges she has overcome in a war zone and as a refugee in Ireland, she paints to celebrate the positive and does so with wit and humour, part of her deep humanity.
She is the subject of a portrait by James Hanley in the Orpen's Easel slot at the RHA, .
DINNER AT THE ARTS CLUB
Mixed media on canvas, 59" x 39 1/4" (150 x 100cm), signed and dated 2023.
Manar Al Shouha is a young Syrian painter who came to Ireland from Damascus less than two years ago. In that short time she has shared joint exhibitions at Rathfarnham Castle and the Cashel Arts Festival, shown at the High Lane's Gallery in Drogheda and in the RHA open exhibition in 2023 when she was awarded the Contemporary Irish Art Society's award for an Emerging Artist and was nominated for the 2024 Hennessy Craig Portrait prize.
She had a precocious start to her career in war-torn Damascus, showing in collective group exhibitions while still a student and immediately after graduation in 2016, in the National Centre for Visual Arts, Samer Kozah Gallery and the Al Hekmieh Art Gallery, Damascus, between 2018 and 202. In 2019 she was invited to show as part of Beirut Art Week in Lebanon.
Manar Al Shouha is very proud of her city's history, 'capital of the Umayyads, the dream of Abbasids, and one of the oldest capital cities of the Islamic world' as she described it, yet her work does not immediately lead one to think of Islamic art. Instead it reflects Damascus's outward looking, cosmopolitan culture. Life drawing was not permitted for women students in the Art School of the University of Damascus yet her practice is unequivocally based on the human figure and on drawing, in which she connects to the European figurative traditions of Honore Daumier, Egon Schiele and Pablo Picasso with a nod to Francis Bacon's palette along the way. Her work is not overtly political but its fluid, shadowy, layered imagery is deeply imbued with the sufferings of her native city, often symbolically represented through the figure of a woman who has endured centuries of history and will survive its present difficulties with dignity.
Since coming to Ireland she has widened her subject matter to reflect the atmosphere of Dublin's pubs and Georgian architecture and is at her best when presenting sharply observed social interactions such as dinner at the Arts Club or an exchange of confidences in a Dublin bar, painted in distinctive, confident sweeping brushstrokes and lines that pulsate with nervous energy. Despite the challenges she has overcome in a war zone and as a refugee in Ireland, she paints to celebrate the positive and does so with wit and humour, part of her deep humanity.
She is the subject of a portrait by James Hanley in the Orpen's Easel slot at the RHA, .
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PLEASE BID EARLY TO AVOID DISAPPOINTMENT.
In order to allow rival bidders the opportunity to respond to a late bid the following extensions will apply:
IF A BID IS RECEIVED WITHIN THE FINAL 45 SECONDS OF THE COUNTDOWN THE CLOCK WILL RESET TO 60 SECONDS.
At any point you can leave a maximum bid, representing the highest price you are prepared to pay for a particular lot. Bidding only advances when there is competition from a rival bidder. In that case the system bids on your behalf, only up to the maximum if required. All bids are relayed to you be email, along with notification if you have been outbid.
All maximum bids are confidential and not disclosed. The system will endeavor to purchase the lot for you for the least price. Bids are subject to buyer’s premium of 25% (incl vat), with no additional charges.
In the event of a tied bid, the preference will be given to the bid submitted first. The second bidder will receive immediate notification of being outbid.
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