Bashir Makhoul

Title: My Olive Branch
Media: Photography, C print on Foamex
Date: 2004
Dimensions: 120 x 120 CM
Edition: 1/5

Artwork courtesy of the artist

Starting Bid: $2200

Biography:
Bashir Makhoul is a Palestinian artist born in Galilee, Israel/Palestine (1963). His work is based on repeated motifs that are characterized by a power of aesthetic seduction. Once drawn into the work, however, viewers find themselves engaged with something far more complicated than a beautiful pattern. Economics, nationalism, war, and torture are frequently woven into the layers of Makhoul’s work and often the more explicit the material, the more seductive the surface. Makhoul completed his PhD in theory and practice in 1995 at Manchester Metropolitan University. He has exhibited his work widely in Britain and internationally, including at the Hayward Gallery, London; the Herzliya Museum, Israel; Jordan National Gallery; NCA Gallery, Lahore; the Liverpool Biennial; the Florence Biennial; UTS Gallery, Sydney. He is currently head of the department of art and design at the University of Luton and the director of the Research Institute of Art, Design and Media, U.K.