Raghad Elwali Explore Mondoir Studio Nationality: Sudanese Artistic discipline: painting Based in: Dubai, AE BiographyI am Raghad Elwali, a painter and multidisciplinary artist from Khartoum, Sudan. My background in fine art began in childhood, shaped by a creative family and an early fascination with painting, drawing, and visual storytelling. I remember buying cheap watercolors from the store next to my childhood home and painting the trees in the backyard, slowly building a private world through color, image, and imagination. As I grew older, art became more than a hobby; it became a habit, then a language, then a core part of my identity. My work is influenced by culture, memory, emotion, history, and the ability of art to express what words often cannot. Through painting, design, and writing, I create visual worlds that reflect both personal experience and larger questions of identity, heritage, and existence. Artist StatementI explore themes of Afro-futurism, culture, inner worlds, wonderland, and conceptual design through painting. Inspired by artists such as Basquiat and Klimt, I am drawn to symbols, shapes, and figures as forms of storytelling. Through my work, I aim to depict different states of being, psychological complexity, and the worlds we create for ourselves when reality feels too limited. EducationI have studied History briefly at Cardiff University, and that influenced some of my artworks.
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