Wissam Shawkat

Nationality:
Iraq
Lives and Works:
Dubai
Discipline:
Printmaking


Born in Basra in 1974, Wissam Shawkat is an award-winning artist and designer based in Dubai, with a focus on Arabic calligraphy and typography. His work departs from classic calligraphy, yet maintains its craftsmanship. Since 2003 he has been working on a new script named after himself (Al Wissam Style), and in recent years, he started ‘Calligraforms’, an art movement that merges the graphic qualities found in classic letterforms and western Abstraction and Cubism. Wissam has had many solo shows and has participated in many group exhibitions. His calligraphy and typography designs have appeared in several books and magazines about art and design.

Wissam joined Tashkeel in 2009 as Member 52. He has run various workshops in Arabic calligraphy (2009–2018). He also exhibited with Tashkeel in ‘Hurouf Al Noor’ (2011) and his solo exhibition ‘Monumental 11/11’ (2015).

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Selected Artworks

Basmala

Wissam Shawkat

Basmala

  • 2014
  • Ink and acrylic colors on handmade paper
  • 60 X 80 cm
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Love 2

Wissam Shawkat

Love 2

  • 2011
  • Soot ink and acrylic colors on paper
  • 48 X 94 cm
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Love 5

Wissam Shawkat

Love 5

  • 2010
  • Soot ink and acrylic colors on Handmade paper
  • 95.5 X 53 cm
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Love & Freedom

Wissam Shawkat

Love & Freedom

  • 2010
  • Soot ink and acrylic colors on handmade paper
  • 95 x 63 cm
  • Love is the only freedom in the world - Khalil Gibran
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The Love Garden

Wissam Shawkat

The Love Garden

  • 2010
  • Soot ink and acrylic colors on paper
  • 55 X 95 cm
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Love 4

Wissam Shawkat

Love 4

  • 2011
  • Soot ink and acrylic colors on handmade paper
  • 94 X 60 cm
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World of Love

Wissam Shawkat

World of Love

  • 2011
  • Ink and acrylic colors on handmade paper
  • 70 X 70 cm
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Elsewhere on Tashkeel

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Made in Tashkeel 2023

Tashkeel is pleased to announce its annual exhibition, 'Made in Tashkeel,' to celebrate its 15th anniversary!

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Tashkeel x ENOC Public Art Commission

Tashkeel x ENOC Public Art Commission – EXPO 2020

ENOC, the Official Integrated Energy Partner of EXPO 2020 Dubai, has joined hands with Tashkeel to manifest the Group’s participation theme ‘Reimagine Energy’ in art that speaks to the World’s Greates...

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Disciplined Insurgence: Beyond The Norm in Letters Form

Disciplined Insurgence marks the second solo exhibition at Tashkeel by Wissam Shawkat, the Basra-born, Dubai-based, award-winning artist and designer.

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Jali Diwani

Favoured by the Ottoman sultans, Jali Diwani and Diwani were used as the scripts for official decrees, correspondences, badges and ornamentations. Today, Jali Diwani is applied in a wide range of cont...

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