Fine Arts

Meet the artist: Bassam Al-Sabah

The Dublin and Belfast-based

Bassam Al-Sabah: the Dublin and Belfast-based artist works across digital animation, painting, sculpture and textiles

Bassam Al-Sabah works across digital animation, painting, sculpture and textiles creating visions of resistance, transformation and queer possibility. He completed a BA in visual art practice from Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology (IADT) in 2016.

His current solo exhibition, ‘IT’S DANGEROUS TO GO ALONE! TAKE THIS’, at the Douglas Hyde Gallery runs until March 5. The gallery describes his work as transforming the space into “a fantasy dreamscape embracing the shape-shifting potential ...