“… this work is my expression of the power of prayer. My intention is entirely pure.”
Noha Al-Sharif lives in Jeddah and is the youngest artist participating in ‘Edge of Arabia’. In 2004 she graduated from the Jeddah School of Fine Arts with a BA and has recently completed her MA. Al-Sharif has an interest in the representation of groups and the sculptural history of how different figures relate to each other.
Her inspiration for Humbly and Devout, her contribution to ‘Edge of Arabia’, was drawn both from her admiration of Henry Moore and her deep-rooted faith in Islam. Based on a photograph of women during prayer, these figures when seen together combine as if fingers in a hand. This is a reference both to the everyday regularity of prayer performed five times a day, and that praying as a group is religiously preferable to praying in isolation.
