18 - VERA TAMARI (PALESTINIAN, B. 1945)

VERA TAMARI (PALESTINIAN, B. 1945) Al-Saber, Prayers not Met Signed in Arabic 'Vera' and dated '2025' in lower right Mixed media on Japanese paper 35cm x 136cm; 57cm 156.5cm total including frame Born in Jerusalem in 1945, Vera Tamari is a visual artist, Islamic art historian, art educator and curator. Tamari graduated with a BA in Fine Arts from Beirut College for Women in 1966. She specialised in ceramics at the Istituto Statale d’Arte per la Ceramica in Florence, Italy in 1974 and obtained her M. Phil. degree in Islamic Art and Architecture from the University of Oxford in 1984. As an artist, Tamari specialises in ceramic sculpture and conceptual art. Tamari served for more than two decades as professor of Islamic Art and Architecture and Art History at Birzeit University, where she also founded and directed the Virtual Gallery and the Birzeit University Museum between 2005 and 2010. Provenance: Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner.