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About

Samira El Chami is a Lebanese artist residing on Darug Land / Western Sydney. She received her fine art training at the National Art School graduating in 2025. Samira continues to make sculptural ceramics from her home studio releasing collections online.

Her work combines the classical elegance of Arabic calligraphy with her contemporary and satirical nature through handbuilding sculptural and decorative clay pieces. It touches on themes of exaggerating the mundane, appreciating everyday objects which often go unnoticed, utilising her language and experiences to further establish a genuine connection with her pieces. She honors the slow life that might have flourished if not for colonial infiltration and destruction sought by western imperialists , which have distorted the essence of Bilad Al-Sham / The Levant.

Exhibitions

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New Art 25

Delmar Gallery, 2025

@silversalt_photography

Object [ book + text ]

Articulate Project Space, 2025

Objectality

Goodspace Gallery, 2025

Art for Gaza

Glebe Town Hall , 2025

CV

  • 2022 - 2024

    Bachelor of Fine Arts - National Art School

    2021

    High School Diploma - Macarthur Girls High School

  • 2025

    • Books [ object + text ]

      5- 27 July, Articulate project space - Leichhardt

    • Objectality

      2nd July, Goodspace Gallery - Chippendale

    • Art for Gaza

      22 Feb, Glebe Town Hall - Glebe

    • New Art 25

      8 Feb - 16 March, Delmar Gallery - Summer Hill

    2024

    • NAS Grad Show

      6 - 15 Dec, National Art School - Darlinghurst