The Journal presents researched essays on Issam Bader’s artistic practice, institutional work and place within modern Palestinian art. These longer readings connect artworks with exhibitions, education, publishing, Gallery 79, public art and the wider cultural conditions in which he worked.
Each essay draws on the archive’s documentary records and identifies the sources, uncertainties and interpretations that inform its account.
Building an Art Movement: The Work beyond the Studio
How exhibiting, organizing and publishing become part of an artistic contribution.
Gallery 79: A Gallery and Its Public
A permanent space, an educational ambition and the interruption of closure.
Ceramics and Everyday Life
Looking at clay, colour, line and the physical encounter with a work.
Public Art and the Life of a Place
Murals, civic settings and the documentary life of an architectural work.