Geometric art
Zarah Hussain is an MA graduate of the Visual Islamic and Traditional Art programme at the Prince’s School For Traditional Arts in London. She has spent many years perfecting the traditional techniques used to create mathematical geometric Art and adapting them to create works with a contemporary resonance. She has had several solo exhibitions across the UK, and her work is held in many museum collections.
Most recently, her practice has developed to include three-dimensional sculptures, currently displayed for the first time at Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery in the exhibition ‘Symmetry in Sculpture: Recent Work by Zarah Hussain’. Further details of the exhibition which runs from 24th May until 2nd November 2014 can be found here http://www.bmag.org.uk/events?id=3205
On Sat 16th August 2014 there will be a talks and discussion event including Zarah Hussain. Further details can be found here http://www.bmag.org.uk/events?id=3394
Video (c) Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery
Image (c) Zarah Hussain
