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Mowaffag Elsadig

Painter

Sudanese • Based in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Languages: Arabic - English

Mowaffag Elsadig is a Sudanese visual artist and researcher working across drawing and figurative painting. Self-taught, his practice translates personal and collective histories into visual form, drawing from Sudanese cultural memory, ritual, and daily life through images shaped by gesture, composition, and emotional presence.

Exhibitions

Group Exhibitions

Mirage
, Vertygo Art & Thaer Select, Abu Dhabi
The Lab Bazar
The Downtown Gallery
The Voices
The Hub, Khartoum
Spoken Art September
The Hub, Khartoum
The Collage
The Downtown Gallery
A Postcard Festival
The Downtown Gallery

Artistic Practice

RESEARCH APPROACH

Uses heritage as both subject and framework, translating lived experience into figurative and narrative compositions.

KEY THEMES

Cultural memory, ritual, dance, identity, figurative narrative, lived experience

METHODS AND PROCESSES

Works primarily in oil and acrylic with charcoal and ink as supporting media, developing compositions through observation and narrative sensibility.

Mediums

PRIMARY

Drawing, oil, acrylic

SECONDARY

charcoal, ink

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