🎨 "Be deeply delusional in what you're trying to make. If you have that locked in, you're like Teflon."

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🎬 #SoudadeKaadan – Award-winning Syrian filmmaker. Her short film When The Tiles Spoke gives voice to the Damascene tiles. She also shares practical wisdom for independent filmmakers.
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📚The #ArabHall 's mystery, unpacked. Dr Melanie Gibson's research explores #LeightonHouse – a #Victorianartist's home with Damascene tiles & complex colonial history.

"The more I looked, the more I questioned how it was put together."

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The #ArabHall – with Damascene tiles & Islamic patterns – is London's hidden treasure.

📖 🔊 Read or Listen to how Frederic #Leighton (1830–1896), #Victorianartist and President of the Royal Academy, transformed his house into art.

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📚 Dr Melanie Gibson @melgib1 – Author of The Arab Hall: Frederic Leighton, Traveller and Collector. She explores the complexities of the Victorian artist's home, and the history of the Arab Hall. #TheBardAndTheRawi, #VictorianArt, #ArabArt

🖌️ Bridging Worlds in Tile and Paint – How Leighton's house-studio became more than just a building, but a space for conversations about art, power, and belonging spanning centuries. #TheBardAndTheRawi, #VictorianArt, #ArabArt

🎬 @soudade_kaadan – Award-winning Syrian filmmaker. Her short film When The Tiles Spoke gives voice to the Damascene tiles that adorn the Arab Hall. A meditation on displacement, belonging, and reclaiming story. #TheBardAndTheRawi, #VictorianArt, #ArabArt #SyrianFilms

🎨 @ramzimallatstudio – The Lebanese artist whose installation, Atlas of An Entangled Gaze, reshuffled the power dynamics of the Arab Hall. He discusses his work, the concept of the evil eye, and the importance of crafting authenticity.
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📖 🔊Read or Listen to the #LeightonHouse Spotlight series.
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Spotlight: #LeightonHouse & The #ArabHall
Since its completion in 1881, the Arab Hall has been a place of discovery and debate.
Our Spotlight series explores the Arab artists and thinkers who are reclaiming this Victorian narrative.
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