Editions for Charity by Frieze Artist Award Winner Adham Faramawy
The artist has created two poetic prints in aid of Southwark Day Centre for Asylum Seekers
The artist has created two poetic prints in aid of Southwark Day Centre for Asylum Seekers
As an extension of their Frieze Artist Award commission, Adham Faramawy has made two print editions, Welcome the newcomers i and Welcome the newcomers ii. The editions can be purchased separately or as a pair. All proceeds from their sales will be donated to the Southwark Day Centre for Asylum Seekers, a charity supporting refugees and asylum seekers in south London.
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About Adham Faramawy
Adham Faramawy is an artist of Egyptian descent based in London. Their work spans media including moving image, sculptural installation, photography, print and painting engaging with concerns of materiality, touch, the body and toxicity to question ideas of the natural in relation to marginalized communities.
Faramawy has screened work at the Guggenheim Museum, New York; Tate Modern and Tate Britain, London; Serpentine Gallery, London and Serpentine Ecologies Symposia, London. Their recent exhibitions include Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Arts, London; Somerset House, London; Buffalo University Gallery, Buffalo; the Bemis Center, Omaha; NiruRatnam Gallery, London (solo), and Cell Projects, London (solo). They were shortlisted for the Film London Jarman Award 2017 and 2021.
For further information on Adham Faramawy’s new commission for this year’s Frieze Artist Award, please click the link below:
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About the Frieze Artist Award in partnership with Forma
The Frieze Artist Award in partnership with Forma provides an artist with the opportunity to debut an ambitious new commission at Frieze London at a formative moment in their career. The recipient of the 2023 Artist Award at Frieze London was selected by a jury of leading industry figures: Andrew Bonacina (Independent Curator), Carmen Juliá (Curator, Spike Island), Eva Langret (Director of Frieze London), Chris Rawcliffe (Artistic Director, Forma) and Abbas Zahedi (Winner of the Frieze London Artist Award 2022).
Faramawy succeeds Abbas Zahedi (2022), Sung Tieu (2021), Alberta Whittle (2020) and Himali Singh Soin (2019) as recipient of the Frieze Artist Award.
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Main image and thumbnail image: Adham Faramawy, Welcome the newcomers (i & ii), 2023*. Colour print on 350gsm natural white matte Hahnemühle museum etching paper, each 42 cm x 29.7cm
