Salah Elmur
Sudan
Salah Elmur was born in 1966 in a village on the western bank of the Blue Nile in Sudan.
He graduated in 1989 as a graphic designer at Sudan University’s College of Fine & Applied Arts in Khartoum.
Elmur initially represented the Khartoum School, classic style of painting, with semi-abstract, colourful, ornamental and symbolic water-coloured mixed media works.
From 2000 onwards his style changed to large-scale, figurative-abstract acrylic paintings.
Salah Elmur has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions in East Africa,
Europe and the Middle East, including the prestigious Dubai Art Fair 2014.
His works are continously presented in the Gazzambo Art Gallery in Madrid, Spain, the esteemed Mashrabia Gallery in Cairo, Egypt and in the permanent collection of the Sharja Museum of Modern Art - United Arabs Emirates (UAE)
Elmur currently works as a freelance artist, photographer, film-maker and illustrator of children books. He lives partly in Khartoum and partly in Cairo
Untitled | Mxed Mediai on Paper | 30.5cm x 23cm | 1998
CODE: ALMU14
Untitled | Mixed Media on Paper | 25cm x 25cm | 1997
CODE: ALMU8
Untitled | Mixed Media on Paper | 27.5cm x 25cm | 1997
CODE: ALMU1
Untitled | Mixed Media on Canvas | 38.5cm x 19.5cm | ca. 1997
CODE: ALMU5
Untitled | Mixed Media on Canvas | 35.5cm x 30.5cm | 2000
CODE: ALMU10
Untitled | Mixed Media on Canvas | 35.5cm x 30.5cm | 2000
CODE: ALMU12
Untitled | Mixed Media on Canvas | 19cm x 20cm | 1999
CODE: ALMU14
Untitled | Acryl on Wood | 30cm x 30cm | ca. 2013
CODE: ALMU15
Untitled | Mixed Media on Canvas | 19cm x 20cm | 1999
CODE: ALMU12
Untitled | Acryl on Wood | (30cm x 30cm) x 6 | 2013
CODE: ALMU16
Untitled | Acrylic on Canvas | 90cm x 90cm | 2013
CODE: ALMU17