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Leena is a Palestinian artist living in Scotland. She studied and worked as a nurse for a number of years, then abandoned her nursing career to study Fine Art Printmaking at Duncan of Jordanstone (DJCAD) University of Dundee, and continues to practice printmaking as her chosen image making process.
She has exhibited widely within Scotland Europe China Australia and Palestine, as part of group exhibitions and solo exhibitions. She works predominantly in printmaking, but uses alternative methods and subtle variations to achieve complex yet seemingly simple images on paper, cloth and other materials. She worked as a printmaking technician, studio manager/co-ordinator, master printer and printmaking educator at Edinburgh Printmakers Workshop for 12 years till 2017, and as a freelance art educator with various organisations such as Scottish National Galleries, Perth Museum and Gallery, Stills, amongst some.
She has exhibited widely within Scotland Europe China Australia and Palestine, as part of group exhibitions and solo exhibitions. She works predominantly in printmaking, but uses alternative methods and subtle variations to achieve complex yet seemingly simple images on paper, cloth and other materials.
She worked as a printmaking technician, studio manager/co-ordinator, master printer and printmaking educator at Edinburgh Printmakers Workshop for 12 years till 2017, and as a freelance art educator with various organisations such as Scottish National Galleries, Perth Museum and Gallery, Stills, amongst some.
Recently she completed a Masters in Fine Art and Humanities in 2018, which introduced her to new ways of working embracing various materials and processes, hitherto unavailable to her, all the while embedding printmaking deeply into her practice. She has been called a “dyed in the wool printmaker”, but this does not mean she is shy of exploring and experimenting.
She continues to work in printmaking, in a traditional and non traditional way, through bronze casting, ceramics, installations and photographic techniques.
1996-2000
BA (Hons) Fine Art Printmaking Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design,(DOJ) University of Dundee
1995-1996
Foundation Course Art & Design Telford College Edinburgh
Solo exhibitions and collaborations: 2016-2006
Aug
2018 MFA Degree show – room 512 - https://www.dundee.ac.uk/mastersshow/2018/workondisplay/arthumanities/leenanammari/
June
2016 PaintPrintPaint – with Louise Ritchie – The Meffan, Forfar, Angus, Scotland
March-Apr
2016 Loch Computer – with Norman McBeath - Tent Gallery – ECA, Lady Lawson street, Edinburgh
June
2013 Distance learning – with Louise Ritchie PSSA – British Ambassadors residence, Bratislava, Slovakia
Feb
2012 Remembered places – Filmhouse Cinema Bar - Edinburgh
Jan – March
2009 Space to breathe – Edinburgh Printmakers –Union Street, Edinburgh
April-June
2006 hospital series: sleep well, in association with Functionsuite, Artlink, New Royal
Infirmary of Edinburgh
Selected Group exhibitions:
2018 - 2014
Jan (Still to come)
2019 WeWorkWonders @ Tatha Gallery – Newport-Fife
December (Still to come) 2018
Third space - Collaboration with Helen Angell-Preece – cultural dialogues – Meadowmill – WASPS - Dundee
Oct-Dec 2018
Deluge – group exhibition at Edinburgh Printmakers, as final exhibition in old premises.
Sept 2018
WeWorkWonders@WestWardWorks – Dundee – post MFA group exhibition, curated by Louise Ritchie, Leena Nammari, Paola McClure, Joanne Hall.
Thinking of Place II - Part of printmaking group show for IMPACT 10 –Santander -Spain
Aug 2018
MFA Degree show – room 512 - https://www.dundee.ac.uk/mastersshow/2018/workondisplay/arthumanities/leenanammari/
Jan - Mar 2018
SSA annual Exhibition, RSA building, the mound Edinburgh
Nov -Mar 2017-18
Paper to Gold – Edinburgh Printmakers, Union Street, Edinburgh
Nov-Dec 2016
SSA annual Exhibition, RSA building, the mound Edinburgh
Oct-Nov 2016
Exquisite Corpse – SSA - St Andrews Museum & Gallery –St Andrews, Fife.
December-Jan 2015
SSA annual Exhibition, RSA building, the mound Edinburgh
May-June 2015
Actinic Festival, Edinburgh Printmakers, Edinburgh
May 2015
Group show: Etching Symposium: Castle Mojmirovce Slovakia, etching symposium,
Gallery One new premises, Inaugural exhibition: group exhibition Ramallah, West bank, Palestine
March-Nov 2015
PostPost – exhibition for imaginary stamps – for IMPRINT Austratia – touring Brisbane & Melbourne
February 2015
New Bridges Nove Mosty 11:11 - GMAB Nitra Trenčín Slovakia 2015
January 2015
Gallery One – Sirrieyh Street, Ramallah – West Bank - Palestine
December 2014
Society of Scottish Artists – RSA Building – Edinburgh
Dec 14-Feb 15
Royal oversears League – London
November 2014
Royal Scottish Academy – Open exhibition – RSA Building, The Mound Edinburgh
New Bridges Nove Mosty 11:11 - House of ART Piešťany Slovakia
August October 2014
Gallery 1940 – Marchmont - Edinburgh -
July- August 2014
Royal Overseas League, 100 Princes Street, Edinburgh, with Edinburgh Printmakers
July –Sept 2014
Bridges 11:11 - Nitra State Gallery – Nitra, Slovakia, with SSA
Mar-May 2014
RSA Anuual Exhibition – Focus on Film – Royal Scottsih Academy – Edinburgh
Jan-Mar 2014
In a Jiffy, SSA Professional exhibition, the Meffan, Forfar
Selected small projects:
2018 - 2009
Royal Scottish Academy (RSA) October 17-Jan 18
Printer in Residence – Ages of Wonder. Printing and demonstrating, while engaging the public a series of plates made for and with the Academicians over various days, during the exhibition run.
Scottish National Portrait Gallery 2017
In collaboration with Adamson and Hill exhibitions, 2 cyanotype workshops, for families, exploring the heritage of early photography and photographic pioneers
SSA education projects 2012--2015
Working with Glasgow college 2nd year HND students on an interpretative book binding workshop, reflecting their response to the annual SSA exhibition in the RSA building. In collaboration with SSA president Loiuse Ritchie
Scottish National Portrait Gallery 2012
Cells – 2012 – Scottish National Portrait Gallery (SNPGS), Edinburgh, in collaboration with the Roslin Institute. Working with 2 schools in Edinburgh : Penicuik High School – Penicuik, and James Gillespie High School, Edinburgh. Working with Cyanotype, investigating ways expressing individuality through looking at cells, cell structure, DNA, cloning, culminating in an exhibition of the pupils work in the SNPGS in September 2012 till March 2013.
Stills Gallery and resource – 2009-2012
Language with Flowers – 2009- 2012 – Stills , Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh Printmakers. Collaborating with Jila Peacock, Working with various groups – Libertus, Shakti, NKS and Saheliya, using digital imagery, photography, calligraphy and screenprinting, translating ideas from image to text to print, culminating in an openday of printing and disseminating skills.
Awards:
Artsand Humanities citizenship of the artistic community award – 2018 DJCAD
Alumni award for MFA Art and Humanities 2018 DJCAD
Studio Faire inaugural Student Residency –Nerac – France 2018
Invited Artist: Etching Symposium: Castle Mojmirovce – Slovakia 2015
Morton Award for Lens Based Art – RSA – 2007
Creative Scotland Award for Ethnic Minorities projects – Deveron Arts – Huntly 2002
Bernard Cooper Award – DJCAD - 2000
In Collections:
IMPRINT:Printmaking publication Archive, Melbourne, Australia
Bank of Palestine, Ramallah, Palestine
St Andrews University, Loch Computer, St Andrews
National Galleries of Scotland
Deveron Arts, Huntly, Aberdeenshire
DCA Centre for Artist Books, Dundee
Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, Dundee
Various private individuals.
