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Irish-Iraqi artist (born 1966)

Jananne Al-Ani (born 1966) is an Irish-Iraqi artist.

Personal life

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Al-Ani was born in Kirkuk, Iraq in 1966 to an Iraqi father and Irish mother. She studied Fine Art at the Byam Shaw School of Art and graduated with an MA in Photography from the Royal College of Art in 1997.

Jananne Al-Ani - Artists - Edge Of Arabia

She is currently Senior Research Fellow at the University of the Arts London, and lives and works in London.^[1]

Career

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Working with photography, film and video, Al-Ani has an ongoing interest in the documentary tradition, through intimate recollections and more official accounts. Her work also engages with the landscape of the Middle East, its archaeology and its visual representation.

Summarising her work in an interview with curator and critic Nat Muller, Al-Ani said: "I have a longstanding interest in the representation of the body. The earliest works I exhibited were concerned with the way women's bodies have been represented