Ahmad Rwajbeh

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Artworks & Experiments

  • Art
  • Graphic design
  • Print

Collages, posters and single pieces — from protest posters and fruit-headed figures to line studies and typographic play.

Two hands reach toward a bitten red apple balanced on a teal classical column, rays bursting from it, under the title FORBIDDEN on a grainy amber-and-black ground.

Collages

  • A woman seen from behind facing a spiral of red and white text reading It's all in your head, set against a starry sky.
    It's All in Your Head Scattered thoughts, memories and sounds. It's all in our heads.
  • A hand wrapped in gold drapery raises a golden apple into a deep field of stars and galaxies.
    Beginning The beginning of everything: from the oldest photograph of our universe, to the forbidden fruit, to Adam, the first human on earth.
  • A black-and-white portrait of a woman on black, a striped band across her eyes and another across her shoulders, a vine of red roses curling around her.
    Inner Beauty Every soul has its own beauty.
  • Humpback whales swimming through a stormy, cloud-filled sky above a still grey sea, lit by shafts of light.
    Mystic Dreams Dream of what is beyond our world.

Posters

  • Cream poster: the numerals 1948 form a dark staircase rising to an open doorway where a lone man stands, beside the outline of a map, with the words believe, heritage, liberty, faith, resistance, hope and freedom.
    Nakba Poster 15 May 1948 — in memory of the families forced from their own land and into other countries as refugees.
  • A yellow poster scattered with glossy blue 3D letterforms spelling DF and TM at different angles.
    DF Poster A personal experiment.

Single pieces

  • A red sun bearing the Arabic word عمان in white, crossed by black power lines strung from a silhouetted electric pole, on white.
    عمان (Amman)
  • On aged paper, an engraved many-armed figure with hands pressed together above a red sun holding the Japanese characters 感謝, with the word Gratitude below.
    Gratitude
  • The letters L, O, S and T joined by a zigzag ribbon of fine lines on cream.
    LOST

Minimal Animal

A series: Golden Fish, Horse and Whale.

  • A fish shape built from hundreds of fine white curved lines on charcoal, labelled Golden Fish.
    Golden Fish
  • A horse's head built from fine dark curved lines on charcoal, labelled Horse.
    Horse
  • A whale shape built from fine dark curved lines on charcoal, labelled Whale.
    Whale

Vagabond

A series of three.

  • A sheathed katana lying across a dark red ground under the words NOT THE MOST EXPENSIVE SWORD.
    Vagabond I
  • A lone figure on a jagged black peak against dark red, a flock of black birds scattering overhead.
    Vagabond II
  • A long-haired swordsman with his eyes closed and hands pressed together, in black on dark red, beside a block of text.
    Vagabond III

Fruit Collection

A series of five.

  • A collage figure in a silver sequinned top and grey skirt, holding a bunch of dried flowers, with half a grapefruit for a head, on white.
    Grapefruit
  • A collage figure in a dark coat and red floral skirt with a slice of lime for a head, on pink.
    Lime
  • A collage figure in a red floral dress leaning against an ochre wall, with half an avocado for a head, on pink.
    Avocado
  • A collage figure in a dark coat, leopard-print skirt and black boots, with a pineapple for a head, on pink.
    Pineapple
  • A collage figure in a checked shirt and beige coat with a bitten red apple for a head, over blocks of yellow, blue and mint.
    Apple