Hanaa Malallah is regarded as Iraq's leading female contemporary artist. Hanaa's current work focuses upon the reocurring destruction of Iraq's heritage and how this can inspire artistic creation.

Several of the works in this collection use Hanaa’s Ruins Technique, ‘a uniquely Iraqi aesthetic model for interpreting marks of destruction on archaeological material as modern idiom’. Read more about the Ruins Technique and Hanaa at the Recessionists website.

Hanaa Malallah's website

More on Hanaa on the Art and Politics Now blog