Exhibition

A World of Colour & Emotion: Satta Hashem

15 Feb 2025 – 28 Jun 2025

Regular hours

Saturday
11:00 – 17:00
Sunday
11:00 – 17:00
Monday
11:00 – 16:30
Tuesday
11:00 – 16:30
Wednesday
11:00 – 16:30
Thursday
11:00 – 16:30
Friday
11:00 – 16:30

Free admission

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Leicester Museum & Art Gallery

Leicester, United Kingdom

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  • The museum is less than ten minutes walk from Leicester train station.
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A major retrospective of Leicester based artist Satta Hashem. The exhibition includes early political illustrations for Arabic newspapers, murals, rare archive material and paintings and drawings from the past 25 years.

About

Hashem’s work reflects his Iraqi heritage, using deep saturated colours to explore how art can make sense of life, death and war and the role of the artist in conflict.

Weaving a tapestry of current realities, mythology, tragedy, and imagination with intense consideration of colour. The resulting portraits and compositions evoke the earliest depictions of the human face found in ancient Sumerian masks and temple plaques.

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