Shezad Dawood A Double Anther Year 2024 Medium Pencil and watercolour on paper Dimensions 29.7 x 20.9 cm About the work This work is one of a series of recent plant and flower studies, building on the artist’s solo show at WIELS in 2023, entitled: Night in the Garden of Love. These studies delve further into the realm of plants, flowers, seeds, trees and gardens as both real and metaphorical spaces, from which the artist is currently developing new bodies of work in painting, sculpture, ceramic and textile as well as digital media. Date and country of birth 1974, GB Career Highlights Selected Recent Exhibitions:WIELS Brussels (solo) 2023; Leviathan, Salisbury Cathedral (solo) 2023/4; Toronto Biennial (2022); Folkestone Triennial (2021); Guggenheim, New York (2021) Sharjah Biennial (2019). Selected Collections: Tate, Guggenheim, LACMA, British Museum, Arts Council Collection, National Gallery of Canada, Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, Delhi, Sharjah Art Foundation.