Abrar Saeed

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Abrar Saeed is a fresh graduate Emirati from Zayed Universuty With a bachelor degree of Art and design specialized in Visual Art. She seeks to collect skills to enhance her artistic dreams. She has a strong sense of her own artistic style, however she developed her style through the courses she took at Zayed university, such as, painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, photography, ceramics, three dimensional design, Typography and book structure. Abrar started with a pen and paper and through her pursuit of art and design skills she enhanced her ability to articulate her imaginations and creativity and ended up with a pen and paper. Abrar was a speaker at TEDX ZU, it enhanced her way of professionally presenting her self publicly. She also participated in several exhibitions that took place in the art department at Zayed University.

My work revolves mainly on everyday life. The simple surroundings trigger the ideas and creativity in my mind. My process mostly starts with just the observation and documanetation of human behavior that I am surrounded by. I like simple things and simple action, it’s important to stay aware and study real life situations, like the mother who drives her kids to school everyday, the guy who works at the car wash, its simple every day life yet its real life, real action. What I draw is what I see. Expressive drawings are my way of connecting to the outside world; the sense of vulnerability and the roughness that comes in one piece is what fascinates me the most. My interest in design completes my vision as an artist. My goal is to work towards filling the streets with art, urban projects, huge scale project, add humor to the city by using art and design. I always look forward to collaborate with other artist to keep spreading art into the public world. Art to me will always be a learning process I wont ever be satisfied with the skills that I have, its one way of exploring my abilities and capabilities.

2011Self Portrait Acrylic on wood 50cm X 40cm

2012 Feet Acrylic on canvas 89cm X 89cm

2011Something ugly drawn beautiful Pencil on paper 84cm X 59cm

2011Distorted drawing Pencil on paper 42cm X 59cm

2012 Gestural hands Pencil on paper 42cm X 59cm Series of 4

2012 Clash Mixed Media 117cm X 42cm

2012 The Umm Suqeim concept mixed Media Series of 4

2013 Self Portrait Printmaking 71cm X 56cm

2011Reflection Printmaking 31cm X 35cm

2011Self Portrait Printmaking 50cm X 38cm

2013 memory, collection, connection Senior Project 36cm X 24cm Series of 5

This is a self-portrait within a family portrait. The initial aim of this project was interpreting my family using 3 different methods: memory, collection and connection. Through exploration the idea de-veloped into the strong resemblance of family members in this case my brothers and sisters versus the individuality and different personalities of each. The reason behind the chosen technique is the way I’m including my self within my family. Through time the project started to become a reflection of me where I’ve realized that I discovered this style during my time at Zayed University. In the end the representation of someone else slowly changed into a representation of myself by introducing my expressive style through this series.