“Belco Arts put a call out to printmakers throughout Australia to participate in an exhibition with the theme of Habitat – “being the place or environment where we as humans, plants, or animals naturally are located or have found ourselves residing in”. The response has been overwhelming, with approximately 200 prints displayed on the walls in what is a very crowded exhibition.” Sasha Grishin – read the review CLICK HERE and see my work below.

“Fatima Killeen’s highly accomplished collagraph, We are what we grow, is a mesmerising study in harmony and restrained beauty” – Sasha Grishin

Artist’s statement: The pomegranate is a symbol of life and fertility, a sacred fruit stated in the Bible and the Koran. However, from within its core a grenade is emerging as the looming danger we will face since the privation of our duties to care for the environment.
The universal Damask pattern originated in Damascus is a tribute to Syria that has sadly become the testing ground for the paraphernalia of modern warfare and contaminated military landfill. The pattern forms a common narrative with the need to work collectively and unanimously in facing up to the imminent crisis, as nature remembers.