Amr will join Take me Somewhere from Jan - April 2024; supporting the organisation as we begin 2024 with the initiation of several artist development projects through Studio Somewhere.
The 2024 Mophradat Artists Fellowship is an assistantship program for young artists and curators to work with more experienced professionals or an established institution. The aim of the Fellowship is for younger artists and curators from the Arab world to be able to learn through a hands-on assistantship, learning more about the professional art making world through close exchange with their hosts to get to know their practice and be introduced to skills, networks, resources, and communities in their field. The fellowships follow a clear job description and schedule provided by the host, who also commits to engaging in a conversation with the fellow/s about their practices. The fellows are provided with a grant from Mophradat to support the fellowship period.
ABOUT AMR
Amr is an artist and a creator of QIWA events in Scotland. Amr first came to the UK as a Syrian refugee fleeing persecution from his native home. He arrived here with the hope of being able to express his authentic self freely without fear for his own safety. Amr is a student at Edinburgh College studying ‘Contemporary Art Practice’ specialising in sculpting and wearable arts. Amr has been working as an organiser for diverse cabaret shows and culturally vibrant club nights. Under Amr's vision and direction, these have served as one of the very few safe spaces for people of colour in Scotland. He's interested in artists presenting their culture with a contemporary twist and really admires when the artist showcases their life struggle, transferring their feelings and emotions to the audience.
ABOUT MOPHRADAT
Mophradat creates opportunities for artists from the Arab world through an inventive approach to funding, commissioning, collaborating, and gathering. Their way of working is imaginative and ambitious, inclusive and hospitable. Mophradat recognize the Arab world as a loosely-defined geography that is called home by people of diverse ethnicities, gender identities, religions, ideologies, and languages. The name Mophradat is an (eccentric) transliteration of the Arabic word meaning vocabulary. The name speaks to the uniqueness of individual elements in a collective, but also to the way in which, brought together, they generate shared meanings and understandings. Mophradat are registered as an international nonprofit association in Belgium. Mophradat values are here.
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