'The Arab world's most influential living artist', Dia al-Azzawi is best known for monumental and colourful canvasses. His work spans many genres, including a type of artist books known in Arabic as 'dafatir'.
In the two films below, curator Francesca Leoni introduces us to the work of this important contemporary artist and takes us through the Ashmolean's 2022-23 exhibition, Dia Al-Azzawi: Painting Poetry.
