Shaikha Al Ketbi is a visual artist whose multimedia practice spans photography, drawing and installation art. Her work explores themes of self-awareness and blurs the line between fiction and reality. Much of her current practice involves instantaneous performative responses to isolated landscapes, framed through her vivid, experiential dreams.

Al Ketbi is a graduate of Zayed University and her work has been included in exhibitions including the 2018 Arab Women Artists Now exhibition ‘Perpetual Movement’ in London, 2018; Art Bahrain 2018; Armenia Art Fair 2018; UAE Unlimited’s ‘Ishara: Signs, Symbols and Shared Languages’ exhibition 2018; the Zayed University graduate exhibition in 2016; ‘Collectivity’ at Maraya Art Centre; and the 2018 Tribe Magazine’s ‘Tribe: Contemporary Photography from the Arab World’ in Washington, DC. She participated in the Salama bint Hamdan Al Nayhan Foundation Emerging Artists Fellowship from 2016-17. She is also one of the founding members of the Public Art Collective, a group dedicated to the research and advancement of public art dialogue in the UAE.

Rawdha Khalifa Al Ketbi is an Emirati visual artist who works with found materials and memories from abandoned places. Her main practice involves photography, mixed media and installation art. She spends most of her time outdoors, exploring her surroundings and specifically abandoned places, collecting objects that hold memories in order to preserve the history of ‘place’. This interest has led her to explore different mediums and to experiment with techniques to ‘age’ the materials she finds. She recently travelled to Italy where she took classes as part of a University Intercultural Project; she has also worked with Anna Higgs for an exhibition in Germany, and worked on an opera design project in Warsaw, Poland. Her recent exhibitions include ‘Stranded’ and ‘Welcoming’, held in Alserkal Avenue in Dubai, and also ‘Transitional’ held at Abu Dhabi Art Fair 2018 . She continues to seek the thrill of abandoned places in her practice today, a source of inspiration for her works.

Ayesha Hadhir, (born 1994, Abu Dhabi, UAE) studied visual art at the College of Arts and Creative Enterprises at Zayed University. Hadhir works predominantly in installations. Most of her work focusses on growth and change through time, with an interrogation of how to bring materials back to their historical roots. The materials  that she chooses, her exploration of nature and the history of her family are all connected in her work. Her latest series involves the documentation of underwater installations that she has created from found objects. In her career she has exhibited in ‘Neither Visible… Nor Concealed’ curated by Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh and Hesam Rahmanian as part of Abu Dhabi Art Beyond: Emerging Artists programme, Abu Dhabi, in 2019 and with a solo show ‘Al Doobah’, curated by Walter Willems, at Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, in 2018. She has also participated in group exhibitions including ’Tashweesh’, commissioned by UAE Unlimited at Maraya Arts Centre, Sharjah, 2019; the 35th Annual Exhibition, curated by Nasser Abdullah, Emirates Fine Art Society, Sharjah, 2018; ‘Emirati Traditional Games’, curated by Sumayya Al Suwaidi, at Al Qattara Arts Centre, Al Ain, 2017; and ‘Do Art, Do it Now’ commissioned by the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi project, Manarat Al Saadiyat, Abu Dhabi, 2017. Hadhir was selected as one of the Salama bint Hamdan Emerging Artists Fellowship (SEAF) recipients, for the ‘Community and Critique: SEAF 2016/17 Cohort 4’ exhibition, and completed an art residency with the Cultural Foundation in 2019. She works in arts programing at Warehouse421, Abu Dhabi.