Najat Makki
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Najat Makki (born 1956) is an Emirati
visual artist The visual arts are art forms such as painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics (art), ceramics, photography, video, image, filmmaking, design, crafts, and architecture. Many artistic disciplines such as performing arts, conceptual a ...
. She is a member of the
Dubai Dubai (Help:IPA/English, /duːˈbaɪ/ Help:Pronunciation respelling key, ''doo-BYE''; Modern Standard Arabic, Modern Standard Arabic: ; Emirati Arabic, Emirati Arabic: , Romanization of Arabic, romanized: Help:IPA/English, /diˈbej/) is the Lis ...
Cultural Council. and one of the pioneers in Emirati contemporary art scene.


Education

Makki was the first Emirati woman to earn a government scholarship to study art abroad in 1977. She obtained her bachelor's and master's degrees in relief sculpture and metal from the
College of Fine Arts in Cairo Faculty of Fine Arts, Helwan University is a school of fine arts established in Cairo in 1908. It is now the Faculty of Fine Arts, or art department of the Helwan University. It is formerly known as the School of Fine Arts, Cairo, College of Fine A ...
, where she also received her doctorate in the philosophy of art in 2001.


Influences

Najat Makki was influenced by pioneer Egyptian artists such as Mokhtar, Mohamed Saeed, Hamed Nada, Brothers Wanly, Alsajini and Saed Alsader. Najat’s creativity also inspired by the local Emirates environment such as the desert, the sea and folklore. Her perception has a large impact on the artistic interpretations she has developed over time. Her work covers a variety of styles including realism and abstract expressionism. ''“Everything has colour to me. When I was a child, my father owned an herbal medicine shop. It was full of boxes of all different herbs as well as indigo dye and alum-block. I used them all to paint on paper bags. That’s when I started to love colour. At home, I watched my sisters make cushions and curtains from brightly coloured material. I learned about light and shadow from watching my mother fold our clothes. My relationship with colour didn’t just come; I worked on it by learning from everything I saw.”''


Selected exhibitions

* 2000 Woman & Arts; International View Exhibition- Sharjah * 2002 Emirates Media Inc. Exhibition; For you Jerusalem- Abu Dubai * 2002 Tehran Biennial- Iran * 2003 Sharjah Antiquities Museum- Sharjah, UAE * 2004 Environment Exhibition at Dubai Trade Center- Dubai, UAE * 2004 Immar International Arts Workshop- Dubai, UAE * 2004 Co- Exhibition with a Colleague Artist in the Occasion of UAE President Ascension Day held by Dubai International Airport- Dubai, UAE * 2004 Book Fair Exhibition- Frankfurt- Germany * 2004 Heritage Horizons Exhibition- Abu Dhabi Officers Club, UAE * 2014 Women/Creators: Visionary Women in the Emirates Art Scene, Abu Dhabi, UAE * 2015 the UAE national Pavilion,
Venice Biennial The Venice Biennale ( ; ) is an international cultural exhibition hosted annually in Venice, Italy. There are two main components of the festival, known as the Art Biennale () and the Venice Biennale of Architecture, Architecture Biennale (), ...
, Italy * 2016 Portrait of a Nation- Abu Dhabi, UAE


Awards

* 1993 Jury Award, First Session of Sharjah International Biennial, UAE * 1996 General Authority of Youth & Sports Welfare-Silver Award, UAE * 1998
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Biennial Award * 1999 Al Mahabaa Syrian International Biennial, Syria * 2007 Emirates Appreciation Award for Arts, Science and Literature * 2008 The National Award for Arts, Science and Literature


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Further reading

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Makki, Najat Emirati painters Living people French artists French women artists Emirati contemporary artists People from Dubai Emirati women artists 1956 births Emirati expatriates in Egypt 20th-century French women College of Fine Arts in Cairo alumni