About the artist…
Fathima Mohiuddin, the artist commissioned to paint the mural at the West Shore Skate centre is an award-winning artist of Indian origin, with a Dubai upbringing and a Canadian passport. A true 3rd culture kid.
Her bold graphic style of drawing is a hybrid language from a medley of influences. Summers in India with humanitarian grandparents exposed to Indian folk art, artifacts, and mythology. Growing up in multicultural Dubai in a Muslim home exposed to Islamic art, calligraphy, henna, and folklore. The sister of a cartoonist reading comic books as kids. Her mother’s love for language, poetry, and narrative. All this combined, FATSPATROL’s work tells poetic personal stories with universal notes.
“Having painted murals in 10 countries, commissioned on commercial projects for brands including Red Bull and Tiger Beer and worked on outreach projects with challenged communities in Jordan and India, her career as a curator and artist captures the place of art in society from all angles. Fathima believes fundamentally in art’s ability to help heal and move the world forward as well as being a means of making sense of our existence, creating human connection and awareness and finding universal truths.”
Fathima has a BA in studio and culture and an MA in sociology.
In 2010 she founded The Domino, one of the UAE’s first artist-led creative consultancy dedicated to urban art.
