meet the artist - Leena Nammari

as she talks about her use of the Arabic word Haneen in the works in this exhibition; Haneen encompasses the English-language words of heart-felt longing, belonging-at-distance, homesickness and feeling accepted; sentiments which are universally experienced if not easily expressed in the English language.

The three works on show here express Leena’s sense of love for, and being bound to her occupied-homeland of Palestine as she lives her life elsewhere, in exile.