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| Richard Fouad MacLeod | |
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My Name is Fouad and I’m a Lebanese Asylum Seeker. My professional background is Architecture but I jilted it to focus on Art. Now I'm an Artist, a tutor and a freelance art project manager. I use art to express issues that concerns most such Diaspora, Forced Migration, the definition of “Home” and love. To express these emotions I use digital photography, digital image manipulation, Arabic Calligraphy, Short Films and Poetry. Photography: I love Photography and especially when it became digital. I love to capture moments which shows people true feelings. I love capturing the true smiles of people and laughs. I love capturing the escaped tear and anger. I love to share with others how I see the world. I use Photoshop to help the picture to transfer the feelings to the viewer. I took on Photography as a hubby in 2002 and since then I have developed more into a professional photographer. I had few commissions including the official photographer of the European Conference Creative Policies for Creative Cities 2010 which took place in Newcastle upon Tyne. In 2007 I won the 1st Visual Voices Tyne and Wear photography award and in 2008 I had my first photography exhibition. I was one of three BME artists who exhibited their art work in the first Art Exhibition at the historical Granger Market in Newcastle upon Tyne Since then I had few exhibitions in the UK and USA. Arabic Calligraphy: The Arabic Calligraphy is an ancient. It's a fact, the Arabic Calligraphy is a very complicated and geometrically accurate art. It depends on the training of long years to produce a fine and geometrically balanced art. Classical art and it appeals classically more to the Islamic and Arabic ethnic background groups. With my Arabic Calligraphy art work I try to reach out for more audience. I try to give an intriguing visual art work for a wider audience. With that I try to give the opportunity for more people to see a beautiful side of Islam and the Arabic culture. I run Arabic Calligraphy workshops. The Arabic Calligraphy workshops are always success with both BME and English audience and everybody leave with a smile, something new they learned and a beautiful art work to hang proudly on their wall! In my workshops I try to reach out to the other ethnic groups and I try to make the Arabic Calligraphy accessible and also appealing to everybody. I do so by devising a style which I developed which is basically a "free style" using more the natural flow of own hand writing with a bit of curves and swirls and an infusion of colours. The results are usually crazy but beautiful. These workshops can be in the format of drop in sessions where people come in and spend anything from 10 min to an hour or more in depth study and training which can take up to few weeks or even a private tuition sessions. My latest commissions Nov 2009, Newcastle, Ouesbourn Valley Art Weekend Dec 2009, Middlesbrough, BECON AGM Mar 2010, Newcastle, Disabled BME Children Day May 2010, Gateshead, The Gateshead Together festival May - July 2010, Slough, IQRA School, Islamic Art workshops (12 weeks) Jul 2010, North Tyneside, Wallsend People Centre, workshop (and art work exhibition) Jul – Aug 2010, London, Noor Mosque, 6 workshops to create art work with children from all the ethnic groups in the community to promote community cohesion. Please use the links below to see samples of my work In Washington, DC http://www.artomatic.org/user/3039 Osbourn Valley Studio Art Weekend http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=128164&id=582457995&l=5dcc190a9d Art Works Gallery - Home Grown Art Exhibition http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=104827&id=662607679&l=ba308e8025 Film Making: Driven with my passion to capture the human emotions I took on a course in Northumbria University and Teesside University on making short films. In the summer of 2008 I made my first documentary. The film marked my 7 years asylum journey in the UK. But I used the film to draw the light on the journey of many other asylum seekers who is in a similar position but haunted by the negative image painted by the media. You watch the film using the link below http://www.cvp.org.uk/#/sabaa-sanawat/4531147097 In the summer of 2010 I made my 2nd short documentary film. It is called “Manic” and it’s about Manic depression. People around me expected it to be Asylum Seekers but instead it was about a white English young man. And the point I tried to make in this film as well he other one is what ever our ethnic race is or any other “category” we fit in or not. We still all have the same feelings. After all, we are all human! “Manic” will be soon available online for viewing. Poetry I mainly write my poems with my native language, Arabic. But I also have few shy attempts to write in English. Poem is another form I use to express the different emotions and feelings I feel or witness. I have worked with regional organisations such as Intercultural Arts, BECON and Gem Arts. |
Contact Info
| www.richardmacleod.co.uk | |
| Artist | |
| Cinema, Photography, Calligraphy and Music | |
| Creative Design Bureau | |
| Newcastle upon Tyne | |
| NE7 7NE | |
| UK | |
| +447722333991 |
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- Jane
- Category: Arabic Calligraphy - Bahjat style
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- Description: The Bahjat style in writing Jane
- Farah - فرح
- Category: Arabic Calligraphy - Bahjat style
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- Description: Farah is means "Happiness" and in the Egyptian dialect means "Wedding" as well
- Nabila - نبيلة
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- Description: Another Arabic name. It means noble (female)