Dr Azad Hama Shekhany the Head of Architecture Department, Engineering faculty at Tishk International University, has won a prize of 2019 award for an Individual piece of art for his work ‘The Ship Of Diversity‘.
This is from Azad’s series ‘Ship‘. This Series reflects the many peoples now ‘adrift’ in the world. The United Nations reports that the world now has the highest number of refugees and displaced people since the end of the second world war.
The different buildings on this ship reflect the many different peoples and cultures, adrift together and searching for new lives.
Azad is Kurdish and he and his family have been displaced from Kurdistan by the violence of the Islamic State (ISIS) and the other parties to the conflicts in Syria and Iraq. Dr Azad currently lives between Kurdistan, Italy and the UK. He is the Head of Architecture Dept. at Tishk International University, also was a Lecturer in Architectural College at Venice University and was the Dean of Engineering Faculty in Sulaimani Polytechnic University. His artworks reflect the traumas of displacement, he is now divided his life with the fractured lives of scores of millions of other displaced people across the world.
If you have read the notes about Dr Azad’s work then you will see the connections between the current state of the Middle East and the responsibilities of western governments in creating and sustaining those problems.
You can see more of Azad’s artworks in our Main Gallery here.
The artist was Highly Commended for his Series of works :
Ioana Baltan (Romania)
Gergo Bánkúti (Hungary)
Nina Brabbins (Britain)
Yvonne Forster (UK)
Hun Kyu Kim (South Korea)
Nikkita Morgan (Ireland)
Susanne Layla Petersen (Denmark)
Josie Purcell (UK)
Jean-Nirina Razafindralambo
Nichola Rodgers (UK)
Amy Rowe (UK)
Christine Sawyer (Britain)
Theatre of Wrong Decisions (Netherlands)
O Yemi Tubi (Nigeria)
Lauren Zaknoun (USA)
the artist was Highly Commended for his Individual works :
Ce Chen (People’s Republic of China)
Vicente Ortiz Cortez (Mexico)
Kid Crayon (Britain)
Fred Fabre (UK)
Tim Forster (UK)
Jonathan Green (Britain)
Fion Gunn (Ireland/UK)
Habib Hajallie (UK)
Cecile Lacombe (France)
Lidia Lidia (Britain)
Wendy Lu (Taiwan-Canada)
Alida Lyssens (Belgium)
Visithra Manikam (Malaysia)
Mthobisi Maphumulo (South Africa)
Peter Reischl (Austria)
Maryse Renaud (Canada)
Mary Rouncefield (UK)
Marino Seys (Belgium)
Maria Santacecilia (Argentina)
Nadezhda Titova (Russia)
Jorg Walker (Switzerland)
