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Please Stop tthe Madness, Fatima Killeen

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from Blacktown Arts ..., 29.07.08

Fatima Killeen

Fatima was born in Casablanca, Morocco. She first studied at the School of Fine Arts Les Beaux Arts, Casablanca, then in 1988 she began studies of painting and photography at the Corcoran School of Art in Washington DC. In 1994 she came to Australia where she continued her degree in painting and printmaking at the Canberra School of Art, ANU, graduating with First Class Honours in 1997.

Artist Statement

My concern as a painter in a multicultural society is to keep both Islamic design and Arabic calligraphy alive in my work to give identity and existence to my own culture. Initially, my work was a way of staying in touch with my homeland by including symbols as an access point to investigate ideas from far away. Recently I started using writing from newspaper headlines and I translate the meaning because the political concerns they address are driven by the political climate in which we now find ourselves. Most people tend to have a positive and a close understanding of this concept, both politically and culturally. I believe that there is a common place which may be built upon to develop human contact between different cultural values. It is a place of peace, respect and tolerance.

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