Ahmed Shibrain

Sudan, b.1942

Painter, graphic artist, carver, poet and educator, Ahmad Shibrain graduated from the College of Fine Arts in Khartoum (1955) was Dean of the College of Fine and Applied Arts in Khartoum and Secretary General of the Council of Arts and Letters.One of the first Arab artists to experiment with calligraphy in the 1950s, Shibrain draws on his country’s rich African, Nubian, Arab and Meriotic heritage by combining different motifs from their various artistic disciplines, including folk art and calligraphy, with local primary materials such as mahogany.