Sharjah: «Gulf»
Last Thursday evening, the Arab Cultural Club in Sharjah organized a plastic exhibition by artist Naglaa Ali Hassan, in the presence of Dr. Omar Abdel Aziz, Chairman of the Club’s Board of Directors, and a group of plastic artists.
Naglaa Ali is an artist who specializes in the art of patchwork, which is the recycling of leftover cloth in professional artistic ways. It is a prominent engraving on pressed cork covered with cloth. Where the artist presented regarding forty artworks consisting of embroidery drawings on cork covered with cloth, most of which highlighted the faces of women in costumes, each of which represents the traditions of different societies, and focused in particular on women’s clothing and adornment.
The exhibited works show the artist’s professionalism and ability to draw elaborately with embroidery, the accuracy of her execution of the works, and her sensitivity in choosing the cultural features of each community, an experience she gained from her long experience in the field of handicrafts, as she is an expert in handicrafts and crafts, specializing in recycling projects and pioneering “hands” initiatives. Producer for teaching handicrafts to marginalized women and people of determination »in several countries. She is also a fashion designer specializing in traditional clothes and stage clothes. In addition, she is a graduate of the Faculty of Arts, English Department, Cairo University, and a poet who has published several books and articles.
The works reflected the faces of women in their clothes and jewelry, reflecting several Arab societies, Egyptian, Palestinian, Gulf, Sudanese, Iraqi and Yemeni, and was distinguished by focusing on fine details and accuracy in choosing colors, which made her works represent an elaborate artistic documentation of the cultures of Arab societies in women’s adornment and fashion.
