The Shadow: Poems for the Children of Gaza

Mattar, Malak: - Malak Mattar, the artist, was born in 1999 in the Gaza Strip and grew up under occupation and the military siege. While artist-in-residence at An Effort in Central London (December 2023-February 2024), she documented the genocide in her homeland through a series of mostly monochrome drawings and paintings. Mattar wrote and illustrated the bestselling children's book Sitti's Bird (2021). In defiance of strict travel restrictions, Mattar has lectured in universities across the USA (2020-21) and she has had solo exhibitions in Palestine (2015 onwards); Costa Rica (2015); Great Britain (2017, 2018, 2023, 2024); Sweden (2018); USA (2019, 2021); Germany (2020); Lebanon (2021); Portugal (2022) and Italy (2022). Most recently, Malak had two concurrent exhibitions in London, and her monumental painting No Words was shown for the first time (March 2024).