Artwork for Omar Majeed
Zoology
Snakes and Ladders
Jardin
Family Dynamic
Defense Mechanism
Squirtle Bowie in a Reed Basket
Dewey Decimal System (poetry)
Untitled
Details
How would you describe the work you do and why?:
Intuitively guided painting practice led by surrealist strategies, and informed by the spontanaeity of art brut.
For you what does being an artist mean?:
It's an attitude to life, a relation to its paradoxes, a conversation with oneself, and an expression of the internal world as it relates to the apparently external.
Describe what you call yourself/your practice?:
Anti-perfectionism.
Your practice & activities include e.g workshops, teaching:
Painting, design, writing, zinemaking, tshirt design and production, publishing, music
CV & Education, relevant & leading to your artistic practice:
FDA Photography
BA Graphic Design
MA Fine art
Exhibitions in the last 3 years:
'How Can That Be It?' joint exhibition of Dadaist sculpture and automatic drawing with Johnny Burrage @ De Koffie Pot
'Common Room' MA show, Maylords
'Portraits of Otherness' Sartori Gallery, Cusop
Your gallery outlets/stockists:
Market Arts Studios
www.omarmajeed.co.uk
www.deskpublishing.co.uk
www.leshitskate.co
Venues Description:
My studio, Market Arts Studios
Babar Cafe
Venues Confirmed:
Yes
