Rosalind Nashashibi

Rosalind Nashashibi (born 1973) is a British artist of Palestinian descent. Born in Croydon , Nashashibi studied at the Glasgow School of Art , and as of 2003 is based in Glasgow . Much of her work consists of films of everyday life in urban environments. [1] The State of Things is a black and white film of old ladies at a Salvation Army jumble sale with a love song by the Egyptian singer Um Kolsoum on the soundtrack. The exact location of the film is unclear, and Nashashibi has said that many people, when first seeing the grainy footage, assume the women to be from some non-British culture or from an earlier time. Dahiet a Bareed, District of the Post Office was filmed in the West Bank in an area designed by the artists grandfather. The film is of people playing football , having their hair cut and so on. Midwest and Midwest Field depict life in Omaha, Nebraska . In 2003, Nashashibi won the Beck's Futures prize, the first woman to do so, for The State of Things . Her work is held in the collection of the Tate .

Layla Rosalind Nashashibi (born 1973) is an English artist based in Liverpool. Nashashibi was born in 1973 to a Palestinian father and Irish mother, in Croydon , a large town in South London, and received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in painting from Sheffield Hallam University, South Yorkshire, U.K. in 1992. She then moved to Glasgow to study at the Glasgow School of Art, where she received a Master of Fine Arts in 2000. Much of her work consists of films of everyday life in urban environments. [1] Nashashibi works mainly with 16mm film, but has occasionally ventured into the realm of photography and photographic installations. The State of Things is a black-and-white film of old ladies at a Salvation Army jumble sale with a love song by the Egyptian singer Um Kolsoum on the soundtrack. The exact location of the film is unclear, and Nashashibi has said that many people, when first seeing the grainy footage, assume the women to be from some non-British culture or from an earlier time. Dahiet a Bareed, District of the Post Office was filmed in the West Bank in an area designed by the artists grandfather. The film is of people playing football , having their hair cut and so on. Midwest and Midwest Field depict life in Omaha, Nebraska . In 2003, Nashashibi won the Beck's Futures prize, the first woman to do so, for The State of Things .

Layla Rosalind Nashashibi (born 1973) is a Palestinian - English artist based in London . Nashashibi works mainly with 16mm film but also makes paintings and prints . Her work often deals with everyday observations merged with mythological elements , considering the relationships and moments between community and extended family Tate.

(1973 - ) English artist Layla Rosalind Nashashibi (born 1973) is a Palestinian -English artist based in London. Nashashibi works mainly with 16 mm film but also makes paintings and prints. Her work often deals with everyday observations merged with mythological elements, considering the relationships and moments between community and extended family.