SHIREEN TAWEEL AT HER RESIDENCY AT THE COPPER TINSMITH AND NACRE ASSOCIATION OF GAZIANTEP IN TURKEY IN 2019. IMAGE: COURTESY OF THE ARTIST. PHOTO: SPENCER REID. – TAASA Review June 2022
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of entry for Islamic art as a contemporary genre.
Other works by Taweel such as The Call (2019), Devices for Listening (2019) and Switching Codes (2020) all draw on her copper-smithing techniques, Islamic pattern and design, architectural spaces and reference history to speak to contemporary issues.
As a contemporary installation, tracing transcendence holds elements of the Australian Muslim story through an exploration of the materiality of the little-known history of the physical and spiritual presence of Muslims in Australia...