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Shatha Altowai
Shatha Altowai شذى التوي | |
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 Shatha Altowai in 2019 | |
| Born | October 21, 1989 Aden, Democratic Yemen (now Yemen) |
| Education | Universiti Utara Malaysia |
| Years active | 2014–present |
| Employer | University of Edinburgh |
| Known for | Visual art, painting |
| Spouse | Saber Bamatraf (m. 2014–present) |
| Website | www |
Shatha Altowai (Arabic: شذى التوي) is a Yemeni visual artist, living in Edinburgh known for her figurative, cubist, and abstract oil paintings.. Her work explores issues such as identity, displacement, women, children, and the impact of the civil war in Yemen. She is also known for her artistic collaboration and activism with her husband, the Yemeni pianist and composer Saber Bamatraf.
Altowai has received multiple awards, this includes the IIE-Artist Protection Fund award that was hosted at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH) within the University of Edinburgh from 2020 to 2021,The John Byrne Award in 2021, and The Scottish Women's Award 2022.
She has been based in Edinburgh since November 2020.
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