Islamic Art & Design

Exhibitions

'Sacred Creations'
by Yasmin Kathrada

Date: 20th April-7th May 2010, Wednesday 21st April 2010 (Private View)
Time: 6.30pm - 9.30pm
Venue: Mica Gallery, 103 Old Brompton Road, South Kensington, London SW7 3LE
Ticket: rsvp: selen@micagallery.com
The Mica Gallery is pleased to announce the first of its monthly exhibition series entitled "Sacred Creations" (to be exhibited from 20th April - 7th May 2010) by Yasmin Kathrada. Yasmin's works are inspired by spirituality expressed through geometric precision and symmetry. She specialises in glass, ceramics and gesso within the context of architectural interior design and uses Islamic materials, methods and techniques that date back centuries. Her work is both decorative and functional in design and aims to bring beauty into any environment in order to create a peaceful, harmonious and tranquil balance. Yasmin masterfully combines traditional aspects of Islamic with contemporary art resulting in a unique modern Islamic art collection.

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'Unravelling' by Lateefa Spiker

Date: 11th - 26th May 2010, Thursday 13th May 2010 (Private View)
Time: 6.30pm-9.30pm
Venue: Mica Gallery, 103 Old Brompton Road, South Kensington, London SW7 3LE
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A series of works exploring the structures and flowing forms of traditional Islamic pattern and their relationship to our experience of contemporary life. Lateefa extends the boundaries of established order to its encounter with postmodernism and the frontiers of chaos, providing a unique visual meditation on the delicate balance between them.

In this series of colourful paintings and engraved Gesso boards, Lateefa invokes an evolving abstract language, firmly based in the elements of traditional Islamic pattern, to communicate her explorations into transience and the infinite.

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'Happy, Shiny, Fragmented People'
by Saba Khan

Date: 1st-15th June 2010, Tuesday 1st June 2010 (Private View)
Time: 6.30pm-9.30pm
Venue: Mica Gallery, 103 Old Brompton Road, South Kensington, London SW7 3LE
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A series of intuitive and sensual works exploring shapes and colours of the unseen worlds of pain, emotion, energy and the subconscious experience of living simultaneously in mind, body, spirit and physical spaces.

With vibrant colour and bold brush strokes, Saba’s paintings also note the emotional and political choices people make in a plastic, geopolitical world that does not benefit the majority.

Without making moral judgments, she questions the nature of fragmentation as a decaying and creative force. Her paintings remain optimistic as there is the rendering of beauty and a mood of hope and recovery in her work.

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'A Renaissance of Wonder'
by Khaver Idrees

Date: 17th June-1st July 2010, Saturday 19th June 2010 (Private View)
Time: 6.30pm - 9.30pm
Venue: Mica Gallery, 103 Old Brompton, South Kensington, London SW7 3LE
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Conceived during her pilgrimage to Mecca, the exhibition is a reflection on the wonder and value of each stubbornly unique person or thing, neither arbitrary nor irrelevant. Employing a variety of media including found objects during the visit she explores in her own quirky way how individuality unites harmoniously with the greater whole.

' Reflections of Beauty' by Nurjan

Date: 13th-21st July 2010, Tuesday 13th July 2010 (Private View)
Time: 6.30pm - 9.30pm
Venue: 28 Chepstow Corner, Chepstow Place, London W2 4XE
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Nurjan is a shining emerging talent breaking into the British art scene. Her unique use of Swarovski crystals in a colourful array of compositions inspired by her Turkish-Cypriot/Pakistani heritage and her experience as a Londoner, have come together for her first solo exhibition. Her collectors include Kimora Lee Simmons amongst other celebrities.

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'Arabia Juxtaposed' by George Lewis

Date: TBC
Time: 6.30pm - 9.30 pm
Venue: TBC
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George Lewis uses art as a tool in which to bring people together, to better understand the differences between varying groups; to focus on their similarities rather than just their differences, in short to break down barriers and show humanity as a collective: Alamiyyat al Hadara (The Universality of Civilisation). He constantly tries to shine light onto subjects that often remain opaque and misunderstood.

'Equal Opportunities in Painting' by Howard Dyke

Date: 8th-14th November 2010, Tuesday 9th November 2010 (Private View)
Time: 6.30pm- 9.30pm
Venue: TBC
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Howard Dykeʼs pictures contain a tension between the mundaneness of the ubiquitous imagery and the veilʼs mysteriousness and ambiguity. Being at once familiar and strange; they are able to transform, and this is the quality which attracts Howard Dyke. The image may become something else through the making process.

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Launch of national art competition 'My Place on The Isle; Exploring Islam, Faith & Identity in Britain'

Date: Tue 15th Dec 2009 (tbc)
Time: 7pm
Venue: Mica Gallery, 103 Old Brompton Road, South Kensington, London SW7 3LE
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Mica Gallery is launching a national art competition 'My Place On The Isle: Exploring Islam, Faith & Identity in Britain', the winners will be judged by Rebecca Wilson, Editor of Saatchi Online, Roxane Zand, Director of Middle East Dept Sotheby's, and Reedah El-Saie, Director of Mica Gallery. In addition winners will receive media coverage, be celebrated at an awards dinner and exhibited at the Saatchi Gallery in winter 2010/2011. The winners exhibition may also tour the 9 regions of the UK throughout 2011 as part of the Cultural Olympiad, 2012 Olympic Games.

Further information will be available on the website which will be unveiled on Tues 15th Dec. The launch will be hosted by Kristiane Backer TV presenter/ Author, and guest speakers will include Rt Hon Shahid Malik MP and Roxan Zand from Sotheby's. Places are severely limited so please book early to avoid disappointment.

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