Installation, mixed media, earthen ware bodies and engobes (reduction glazes and naked raku surfaces), acrylic sheets.230x130x3 cm. Part of my latest show "Ma'at Changing Colors", Ubuntu - Art Gallery, Cairo, September 2015. Photo: Ahmed Elnemr
Ceramic installation, duet work with Anita Toth (Hungary). 120x120x30 cm, mostly raku fired. Keramiapark, Budapest 2014. Photo: Anita Toth
Earthenware, naked raku fired. Almost 80 cm rd. The 8th International Symposium of Ceramic Art V-oglje, Sencur, Slovenia 2013. And exhibited again at: Keramikmuseum Westerwald, Höhr-Grenzhausen, Germany, March 2014. And exhibited again at: Keramikmuseum Berlin, Berlin, Germany 2015.
Earthenware, slip casted, slip glazed with textural additives. The Pot festival, Sa'ad Zaghloul Art Center, Cairo 2009. * The one to the right now belongs to the collection of Egyptian Museum of Modern Art. Photo: Maged Zaky
Ceramic installation, 3x2x1.7 m. Part of my first solo exhibition, "Ego", Ragheb Ayad Gallery, Gezira Art Center, Cairo 2005. Photo: Sara Mostafa
Installation, mixed media, earthen ware bodies and engobes (reduction firing), metal sheet and strings, and fibrous sheets. 280x228x70 cm. Part of my latest show "Ma'at Changing Colors', Ubuntu Art Gallery, Cairo, September 2015. Photo: Ahmed Elnemr
mixed media installation, ceramics, photography, wooden sheets, plastic strains, 2.75 x 3 x 2.5 m. Part of my first solo exhibition, "Ego", Ragheb Ayead Gallery, Cairo 2005. Photo: Sara Mostafa
Ceramic installation, earthen ware bodies (reduction firing). Plates 40 cm rd. Vases 89 cm ht. Part of my last show at Ubuntu - Art Gallery , Cairo, September 2015. Photo: Ahmed Elnemr
detail
Installation, mixed media, earthen ware bodies, (reduction firing), robes, metal wires, and earthenware fragments. 370x133x27 cm. From my exhibition Ma'at Changing Colors. Ubuntu - Art Gallery. Cairo, September 2015. Photo: Ahmed Elnemr.
Artist Statement
I am a ceramic artist who lives and works in Egypt, where I was born in a historic and most ancient part of Cairo. My early work was inspired by nature and inspiration for my current work is drawn from the amalgamated ether of history, traditions, people, and memories. I believe in clay’s power but also believe that materials and techniques should follow the concepts and ideas of a work. I am more interested in these than in objecthood per se. I am also interested in the relationship between space and viewer, and pursuing ways to bring the two closer together through gallery interactions and creative displays within public spaces.
-- Khaled Sirag
Bio
Born in Cairo 1969, Khaled Sirag graduated from Faculty of Applied Arts, Helwan University, Ceramics Department 1992 & became a professor there in 2006. He displayed his works in 2 solo exhibitions at Ragheb Ayad Gallery, Gezira Art Center, Cairo one in 2005 & the other in 2013. He also participated in a duet exhibition with Istvan Zakar, Újlipótvárosi Klub-Galéria, Budapest, Hungary in 2014. He was represented with 2 duet works in the solo exhibition of the Hungarian Artist Anita Toth, Keramiapark, Budapest, Hungary 2014. He participated in more than 66 local & international exhibitions & more than 35 workshops. He won more than 7 prizes in ceramic art competitions in Egypt & abroad.