Haneen Hadiy
Fine Art BA Hons
Glasgow School of Art
Specialisms: Photography / Painting / Creative Direction
Location: Glasgow, United Kingdom
Haneen Hadiy
First Name: Haneen
Last Name: Hadiy
Specialisms: Photography / Painting / Creative Direction
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My Location: Glasgow, United Kingdom
University / College: Glasgow School of Art
Course / Program Title: Fine Art BA Hons
About
Celebrating the beauty and culture of Iraq through a close engagement with the date palm, the determined and devoted attention of Haneen Hadiy's painting and photography seeks to challenge misconceptions and dominant cultural narratives about Iraq. Positing the date palm as having nurtured civilization, the trees appear again and again in Haneen's work, embodying a reciprocal relationship with the land, helping us think outside the framework of the human to understand the integral connections that exist between societies and the natural world. The majesty and beauty of the date palms are rendered carefully across her body of work, her photographs intimate and evocative, capturing fine details illuminated in golden fading sunlight that are contrasted with strong silhouetted shadows. Haneen's ink depictions of the trees are painted using palm fronds, closing a loop in which the trees are inspiration, tool and final representation.
Nature nurtured civilisation. The date palm is responsible for growth of the human population. The first palm tree to be discovered was in the land of Mesopotamia (present-day Iraq). This was around 3000BC. Iraq has been battered by three years of drought, low rain fall, reduced river flows and is ranked the fifth most vulnerable country to some key effects of climate change. There is a continued damage to the date palms. The land that has fed a nation, provided shelter and dwellings is drying up fast.
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