Category Archives: Morocco

Thirty Daily Greetings – Day 5 – Fallujah’s Wedding Night


Fatima Killeen                                                                                                                               Fallujah’s wedding night 2007 – detail                                                                                Wedding dress, fabric, ink and synthetic roses                                                                           100cm x 210cm Thirty daily greetings will display a different image each day during Ramadan 2012  Click on the image to make it larger or click … Continue reading

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Thirty Daily Greetings – Day 4 – Resilience


Fatima Killeen Resilience 2005                                                                                                                                        Colour collograph                                                                                                                                       47cm x 62cm Before 1948 there were 475 Arab villages within the borders of what was to become the state of Israel – 385 of those villages have been destroyed by the Israeli authorities.         No records were … Continue reading

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Thirty Daily Greetings – Day 3 – Baby Jenin


Baby Jenin  2003                                                                                                                                 Acrylic, sand, shoe, board on wood                                                                                              50cm x 70cm   ….Could this shoe belong to a terrorist from Jenin? Thirty daily greetings will display a different image each day during Ramadan 2012  Click on the image … Continue reading

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The LOOK and MIRROR exhibitions of Australian picturebook art


I have just returned from the fantastic LOOK! and Mirror exhibitions                at the Canberra Museum and Gallery. The exhibitions showing the original                        “art of Australian picture books” are displayed in two separate spaces; one is the collaged illustrations of Jeannie Baker from her Moroccan/Australian … Continue reading

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High fashion in Morocco – Caftan 2012 Maroc collection


Last weekend (Saturday 12 May) was the annual Caftan fashion show at the Palais des Congress in Marrakesh. The twelve designers included Cain Allah El Batoul, Dar Oum Al Ghait and Siham El Habti. The theme for 2012 was the Treasures of Ibn Battuta, the Moroccan explorer who in … Continue reading

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Australian Muslim Women’s Arts Project and No Added Sugar exhibition – News and interviews


The No Added Sugar exhibition opening at the Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre on Saturday 12 May 2012 is the culmination of twelve months of community engagement and hard work by the artists and project coordinators. The group of artists from different cultural backgrounds have … Continue reading

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