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Please note: On Wednesday 4 February, the Kettle’s Yard house will be closing early. Last entry to the house will be at 3.30pm.

© Issam Kourbaj. Photo: Mark Dalton, Kettle's Yard.

Painting

Urgent archives, written in blood (fragment), 2019

Issam Kourbaj
Ink on paper
20 x 15 cm
KY01435
On display

About the artist

Issam Kourbaj (b. 1963) was born in Syria and trained at the Institute of Fine Arts in Damascus, the Repin Institute of Fine Arts & Architecture in Leningrad (St Petersburg) and at Wimbledon School of Art. He has lived in Cambridge since 1990 and since 2011 his artwork has related to the Syrian Crisis, reflecting on the suffering of his fellow Syrians and the destruction of his cultural heritage.
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