Al-Homoud uses Arabic letters to create complex abstract patterns on paper using geometric forms and mixed media.[3][4] She was a co-curator and also exhibited in the 2008 Edge of Arabia exhibition at the Brunei Gallery of SOAS, University of London.[2] Her work has been included in exhibitions in China, Korea, New York City, Paris, Germany, Switzerland, Saudi Arabia, Dubai, Bahrain and Beirut. In 2015, she had a solo exhibition at the Sharjah Calligraphy Museum.[5]
) is a Saudi plastic artist, and she is the first Saudi woman to obtain a master’s degree from the Central Saint Martin University of Art, specializing in Islamic art. She coordinated many exhibitions in different countries, including the Duolun Museum in China, and the Saudi Art Exhibition in SOAS Brunei Gallery, and Al-Hamoud’s works were sold by Christie’s in Dubai, Sotheby’s in London, and Bonhams in London. Her works were also acquired by the Five Continents Museum in Munich, Germany, and the LACMA Museum in Los Angeles. and Jeju Museum in Korea.
The philosophy behind her business Al-Hamoud says in one of her interviews: “I chose an art that expresses my faith and not my feelings. There is a temporal art that expresses temporal feelings, and another eternal one that expresses the continuity of the Creator and the relationship of the soul with its Creator and with the universe in general. What excites me most to produce my work is reading and contemplating the universe and its scientific laws.” .
cube series Lulwa Al-Hamoud adds about her philosophy in this exhibition: “I am always attracted to expressing my inner faith using abstract forms. In the Cubes series, for example: I deal with the topic of transforming the basic shape of a cube into a complex and intertwined composition, in which both construction and installation suggest growth, continuity and eternity. At the same time, composition suggests the stable balance of the infinite that pervades the finite world.
spiritual aspects Al-Hamoud always tends to express creativity through abstract forms. The Arabic language and its development were the focus of her interest and fascination as a researcher and artist. Through her work, she sought to take a deeper look at the hidden rules of creation in a mathematical style, within the framework of the growth and development of everything in nature. Where she asserts that the hidden language that we exclude in our daily lives can give meaning through spiritual aspects, and in the field of research, it finds its way through the combination of art and science.
visual ambiguity Al-Hamoud says: “My work is concerned with visual ambiguity and deals with its relationship between unity and plurality. I create layers of rhythm and these layers symbolize the eternal interplay between knowledge, faith and love. Geometry has always fascinated me as an abstract form that liberates the hidden language of the universe and creation by going beyond its external appearance. My methodology is based on science and mathematics. Which enables me to unlock secrets at their inherited base without being imprisoned by my feelings and without emotionally responding to events in my daily life.
study it 1988: Obtained a BA in Sociology from King Saud University.
1997: Received a BA in Graphic and Audiovisual Design from the American College in London.
2000: Obtained an MA in Communication Design, with a concentration in Islamic Art, from the College of Art and Design, London.
She learned the rules of Arabic calligraphy from the Pakistani calligraphy artist Rashid Butt, and her work was inspired by the Egyptian calligraphy artist Ahmed Mustafa. Her work was inspired by her research on the development of the Arabic language in the tenth century AD in the Abbasid state.
Her works and artistic career - Al-Hamoud works as an art consultant and identity design expert for companies, and receives consultation requests from museums, galleries, prominent personalities and institutions.
- Participated in many international exhibitions in London, Korea, Hong Kong, Germany, China, Doha, Paris, Dubai, New York, Switzerland, Beirut, and some international museums.
- A painting from the “Language of Existence” series was acquired by the Museum of the Five Continents in Munich, and another called “Glory be to God” was acquired by the Los Angeles Museum and is currently on display there, and she was the only participant from the Middle East among 36 artists at the Korea Museum of Contemporary Art on the island of Gigo, which opened in 2009, acquired her co-authored work at the time.
She spent six weeks at a school in London to introduce Arabic calligraphy and design.
Art galleries Since 1999: Organized cultural events.
From 2001 to 2008: She participated in art exhibitions in London and other cities.
2006: I participated with the British Museum in a project aimed at spreading Arab and Islamic culture in British schools.
2008: She supervised the first Saudi exhibition of contemporary art, entitled “Age of Arabia”, which was held at the Brunei Gallery in London.
2009: Her works were selected for the Christie's Middle East auction in Dubai.
2009: Established the "CUBE Arts" project at the end of the year with Reem Al-Faisal, and implemented their first project, promoting the "Saudi Arabian Pavilion" at the "World Expo" in Shanghai 2010, and organized the "First Comprehensive Saudi Exhibition" at Watani Museum for the first time In Asia, where she designed several logos, including the Saudi Pavilion, in addition to designing 118 murals.
2010: Participated in the exhibition The art of writing-Bilder werden geschrieben in Hamburg.
2011: She held the exhibition “The Taming of the Soul” in the British capital.
2011: I participated in the exhibition "Sundram Tagore" in New York.
2013: Solo exhibition "Antology", in Al-Riwaq Gallery, Bahrain.
2014: She opened her first exhibition in Dubai at the Art Space Gallery, entitled 9*9.
2015: She was invited to attend a solo exhibition of her works at the Sharjah Calligraphy Museum.
2016: She held an exhibition at Naila Art Gallery under the title (SUBLIMk) as her first personal exhibition in Saudi Arabia.
Selections from the dialogues of Lulwat Al-Hamoud _ I follow the school of Islamic art, which carries with it the relationship between the limited and the unlimited, unity and plurality, and it is a language in which the science of engineering and mathematics is concerned.
_ Cosmic phenomena require meditation in order to understand them, and my works mean the language of the universe and faith in its Creator.
_ Art has a sublime message.
_ Reflecting on the language of existence and looking closely at the relationship between its elements pushes me to ask, what is abstraction and what is taken for granted, what is usual and what is innovative?,
_ What we see now in international art exhibitions may not go beyond advertising and the desire to shock others.
_ Art has no borders and it is not necessarily limited to the painting, but it is known that art has a ladder by which the artist steps.
_ My works are not easy to read and require the recipient to stand in front of them for a long time to understand their significance and read them through their compositions.
