Exhibition Opening

SADIQ TOMA

Private View on

19th June – Press V 7pm-10pm
20th June PV 7pm – 10pm
21st June PV 7pm – 10pm

Exhibition Continue From 22nd
28th June 2013
From 2pm – 8pm

Sofia gallery
Bulgarian Cultural Institute
Queen’s Gate
188 London SW7 5HL

About the artist:                                                      

1952            Born in Baghdad, Iraq.

1974            Diploma in Fine Art, Baghdad

2005                Master Degree ( MA) in Fine Arts at Middlesex University .

1974 –  78    Freelance Illustrator  – worked for a number of different Iraqi publications.

Iraqi television animator in the children’s programmers department.

Iraqi Institute of Antiquities (Iraqi Museum), illustrator and Poster

Designer  .Baghdad .

1978            Living and worked in London for several publishing Companies  as illustrator

And Graphic Designer , recent years working Self –employed in Art

Education for Adult and School Programmers .

A round the Country & full time Painter.

 

National and International Exhibitions

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Participated  in many  National and International Exhibitions Since 1974 in Iraq , London , Leicester , Dublin ,Sheffield , Scotland    , Japan, , Korea, Denmark , Sharijh , America , France , and Finland .

 

Solo Exhibitions

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Exhibitions a Round  the Countries as London Kufa Gallery , Argel Gallery , Jersey Gallery , Artspace , Galleries , Denmark , Germany , Abu Dhabi , Sharijh ,Jeddah  , Riyadh , in Saudi Arabia , Maldives Islands .

 

 

About the Exhibition:

Discover the ancient History and explore love and life; question the fate of the mortals and search for inner freedom with the Artist Sadiq Toma. Born in Baghdad Sadiq Toma ones left his beloved but troubled homeland and started a new journey in London. Sadiq was an established Graphic Designer, an Animator and Illustrator and an Artist for the Children Programmes in Baghdad TV  , and worked for IraqiMuseum  as Poster Designer . Sadiq was compelled to leave Baghdad in 1978, and realised the intellectuals are under threat under the theme of united Arab state. Sadiq moved to London and worked as a Graphic Designer for International Arabic Magazines and Newspapers and after ten years of servicing Sadiq finally decided to endeavour his childhood desire and started his paintings Sadiq’s works are eclectic, pursuing to understand the sameness of human emotions in all times and places and communicates with the ancient world to convey struggles, labours and the unknown journey Human Beings must determined to take to make things right. ‘I am fascinated by the past and attracted to archaeological discoveries but I am neither an archaeologist nor a teacher. My paintings are homage to my past, to all the love I have lost and the price we all have to pay when human society takes the wrong turn. My paintings are homage to the past, to those who first questioned about life and mortality in the city of Samaria, in the land of Gilgamesh. I intend to search for the art in the archaeological excavation and amalgamate with genres today. I share present with the souls of the past and reminisce the labours of those unknown and yet we are all indebted to. The spirit lies in knowing the best Human can do is keep persevering for the right ways.’ Explains Sadiq about his forthcoming exhibition.