We meet the artist nominated for the Richard Mille Art Prize In partnership with Dana Awartani Courtesy of the artist and Ali Sumayin Ten artists from across the Gulf have been nominated for the second Richard Mille Art Prize. The full list can be found here . Works by the artists is on show at Louvre Abu Dhabi until 19 March and the winner will be announced 20 March. Dana Awartani, born in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, in 1987, creates work fused traditional crafts with a contemporary context. Her BA at London’s Central Saint Martins taught her to research and develop a concept but the “thinking was more important than the end result or the making.” She went on to The Prince’s Foundation School of Traditional Arts in Shoreditch, “which was the total opposite. They told me: ‘You are not an artist, you are a craftswoman.’ It’s a way of […]

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