Gurr Graham

British artist GRAHAM GURR’s career is a fraught story of hardships and perseverance whose multiple lessons, influences and experiences inform the minutely detailed, rich and shifting visual style of his oils, acrylics and drawings. Raised in Scotland and England, Gurr’s life was marked by his parents’ experiences of war and his own episodes overcoming victimhood. Trained in interior design and architecture, his works in pen and pencil also feature multiple framing devices, conveying a sense of interiority and shelter in two dimensions.

His influences range from realism in his still lives, through cubism and expressionism in his human figures, to abstraction and surrealism in his dynamic framing compositions. His striking, practically psychedelic palette of colors evokes the sun-drenched early expressionism of Cézanne and Van Gogh. Elsewhere, weathered forms drained of color allude to his island home of Malta. Dividing his works into multiple frames, planes and spaces that flow playfully between one another, Gurr creates symbolic connections between his manifold influences.

Martins Raquel

RAQUEL MARTINS was born in the southern part of Africa in 1961. Fleeing her country in 1974, just after the collapse of the colonial empire, she arrived in Johannesburg and resided there until 1982. In 1982, Raquel moved to Portugal where she works and resides. 

For the next ten years she worked as a portraitist and it was not until 2001 when she began exploring painting as a form of expression as a full-time painter, and as a professional artist. For the past years her work has centred around figurative paintings ranging from a nearly abstract suggestion of form to a stylized graphic treatment.

Eisa Ayman

Born in Gaza in 1974, AYMAN EISA studied Fine Arts at An Najah University in Nablus (1999). Ayman contributed to the 1999 Biennial for young artists in Rome, ‘We Shall Be’ in the Red Crescent Society in Gaza, 2001 and the traveling exhibition in France of 10 young artists from Gaza 2004- 2005. 


He held his first solo exhibition at the A M Qattan Foundation, Ramallah in 2005.


Lives and works in Gaza.

Rauf Ajouri Abdel

Born in Gaza City in 1977, ABDEL RAUF AJOURI began his career as an artist in 1993. Since then he has taken part in a multitude of art exhibitions and events. His artistic practice suggests influences of expressionism, and has explored the realms of contemporary sculpture.


In 2003 he exhibited his sculptures in a solo exhibition, A Silent Dialogue, at the Khalil Sakakini Cultural Centre in Ramallah. His artworks have been part of numerous group exhibitions in Switzerland, France, UK, Jordan, UAE, and Egypt.


In 2002 Ajouri, along with a group of other Gaza artists, co-founded Eltiqa Group for Contemporary Art. He is also a co-founder of Eltiqa Artistís House Gallery in Gaza where he currently works.  

Jawabreh Monther

Born in 1976 in Al Aroub, West Bank. MONTHER JAWABREH graduated from Al Najah University in Nablus with a Bachelors degree in Fine Arts. He participated in a number of solo and group exhibitions locally and internationally including Germany, UK, Norway, Japan, Syria and others.

He has participated in ‘’Cite International des Arts’’ in Paris France 2010, and is a founder member of a new artist-run gallery space, ‘’Al Mahatta’’, in Ramallah. He currently resides and works in Ramallah.

With an impeccable artistic talent and a solid command of techniques, Jawabreh’s paintings are highly captivating human expressions. His fabulous color coordination and sophisticated compositions require deep attention and careful examination, upon which shapes, stories and messages begin to emerge that are nuanced yet full of soulful impact.  Jawabreh is by all means one of the emerging West Bank artists who is destined from greatness. 

Alhroub Bashar

BASHAR ALHROUB was born in Jerusalem in 1978. He grew up in the West Bank in the village Kharas near Hebron. He has a bachelor’s degree in Fine Art from An-Najah National University in Nablus, which he completed in 2001. In 2009, he was awarded a fellowship from the FORD Foundation to pursue an MFA,  2010 he got his MFA from Winchester School of Art- University of Southampton. Since then he has been living in Ramallah.

His work uses a variety of media including painting, drawing, photography, installation, video and graffiti all within a conceptual frame that utilizes the Universal notions of place, humans attachment and relationship to one’s environment. He is grasping at the space between poetic and political.

Solo Exhibitions include “Reflective Consciousness”at Mosaic Room gallery in London 2010, "Horizon" at the A.M.Qattan Foundation in Ramallah in 2003, "Shrqiat" which was shown at the Alhlaj Gallery in Ramallah and the Peace Center in Bethlehem in 2005 and "Monologue" at the Almahatta Gallery in Ramallah which then traveled to Jerusalem, Nablus and Nazareth in 2009.

Alhroub participated in several group exhibitions, projects and festivals throughout Palestine and abroad including the UAE, Lebanon, Morocco, France, Oman, Algeria, Syria, Japan, France, Scotland, Norway, USA, and the UK. He took part in several Triangle Arts International Artists workshops, Shatana, Jordan with Makan Artist Space, Braziers Workshop in the UK, and was a founder and participant of the first ever International workshop in Palestine hosted by Almahatta Gallery.

He was the organizer and exhibition coordinator for the Abu Jehad Museum, which focuses on the Prisoners movement Affairs in Palestine.  He is a founding member of Almahatta Gallery in Ramallah whose main goal is to reach a wider public audience for contemporary art in the area.