Once thought lost, a small bronze fifteenth century medallion portraying Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II (1432-1481) is up for auction at Bonhams in May. It has been valued at between £1.5 million and £2 million by the auction house. Commissioned by Sultan Mehmed II before his 1453 conquest of Constantinople to wear as a lucky charm […]
The annual Turkish Community Art Exhibition is back for its sixth year and is now open for viewing at the Yunus Emre Institute in London. The multi-disciplinary exhibition, which features a variety of art works including paintings, drawings, photography and sculptures, was opened for public on 5 March and runs for three weeks. Running since […]
Chroma – from Greek khrōma – measures the intensity of colour, meaning that the most chromatically intense colours are completely free from white and grey. Colours, in their pure form, have a potential to communicate extremes of thought and emotion. From Renaissance to Abstract Expressionism, artists have been obsessed with the mysteries of colour for […]
Details for this year’s Turkish Community Art Exhibition have been announced by the Yunus Emre Institute in London, who are behind this excellent annual celebration of British Turkish art – anyone wishing to participate has just two weeks to submit their details! Now in its sixth year, the Turkish Community Art Exhibition is a chance […]
The destruction of the natural environment, particularly Cyprus’s beautiful coastlines, has been highlighted in a powerful new awareness campaign created by artist Nurtane Karagil. Called ‘Coastline(s) Waning: All for a few extra Sunbeds’, Karagil’s collage of four scenes shows beaches dug up as if they are part of a construction site as people continue to […]
İznik pottery is named after the town of İznik in western Anatolia where it was founded. From the last quarter of the 15th century until the end of the 17th century, these decorated ceramics were one of the most important decorative materials embellishing Ottoman structures ranging from palaces to mosques. Today, you can see these […]
Did you know that the poppy is the national flower of Palestine? It has various names, including the poppy anemone, Spanish marigold, and the windflower. The Anemone coronaria, to give it its full formal name, is a beautiful flower that grows in different colours, but most usually red, across the Mediterranean. In the spring, the […]
Multimedia artwork involving British Turkish Cypriot artist Ayshia Muezzin has opened in a new collective exhibition, Inner Projections, at konnektor in Hannover, Germany. Intermedia artist Muezzin has teamed up with Italian conceptual painter Daniele Bongiovanni to create OrbiLux, a collaborative video art piece. It was created “as a response to digitise painting and visualise the […]
After several years as an online exhibition due to the Covid pandemic, the annual Turkish Community Art Exhibition is back as an in-person event and now open for viewing at the Yunus Emre Institute in London. This year’s exhibition features 70 pieces of art by 49 Turkish artists in Britain. They were selected from ore […]
This year’s Turkish Community Art Exhibition has opened for viewing at the Yunus Emre Institute in London. The exhibition features 70 pieces of art by 49 Turkish artists in Britain, including two extraordinary works by Hanife Kiatip. Hanife, known as ‘Hanni’ to family and friends, is a Turkish Cypriot artist who has the challenge of […]
