When a clay turns to a narrative of resistance and identity

Manal Mahamid is a multi-disciplinary Palestinian artist, who has been based in Ireland since 2020. She was born in 1976, in Mu’awiya, a Palestinian village, one of Umm El-Fahem’s town villages. She has been researching Palestinian identity as part of her practice with an emphasis on the compound relationship of the Palestinians with their natural surroundings, using the Palestinian gazelle as a visual metaphor for the complex relationship experienced by the Palestinians in 1948.

Manal has been commissioned by The Dock to make a work in response to the Jackie McKenna installation currently on view in Gallery Two. The commissioned work will be released later in the autumn.

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Manal Mahamid is a multi-disciplinary Palestinian artist, who has been based in Ireland since 2020. She was born in 1976, in Mu’awiya, a Palestinian village, one of Umm El-Fahem’s town villages. She earned her MFA from the University of Haifa in 2006, and subsequently a degree in museology and curation in 2010. She works across video, installation, paint, and photography. She taught in the Academy in Ramalllah until 2016 and was awarded a residency prize through the Delfina Foundation. She has exhibited extensively internationally, including exhibitions in the UK, US, and throughout Israel and Palestine.