“I was trying to find a new way to understand the relationship between The Creator and the creation.”
Saudi Arabian by nationality, Lulwah has lived much of her life in the UK. She graduated with BA in Sociology from King Saud University, 1986 and achieved a BA with Honours in Visual Communication Design and a Major in Graphic Design from The American Collage, London in 1997. She was also the first Saudi to complete an MA from Central St Martins College of Art and Design, London.
From a young age Lulwah was drawn to calligraphy, and her work in ‘Edge of Arabia’ represents a deconstruction and recalibration of the basic calligraphic Arabic form. Al-Homoud has assigned numerical values to different letters and, having combined this with her appreciation of traditional geometries and the Vedic square, has formed a highly original and complex visual interpretation of the 99 names of God.
With this work she reiterates the notion that God often communicates to us through language and has titled her series accordingly The Language of Existence with the word Allah written in accordance with her formulae.
