D Asmather

Asma is a Broken Hill based artist and researcher working across the mediums, including drawing and printmaking. Her work approaches a meeting point between geography, language and metaphysics, with a view of synthesising multiple viewpoints- through a research based often empirical approach. Recently she has been exploring the writings of Ibn al-‘Arabi and his discussion of an intermediate zone(barzakh), especially that between the sky and earth- accessed through an imaginal faculty ‘ the eye of the heart’, a perception known to all traditional societies.

She has had a number of solo shows and participated in group ones. Mather’s last solo exhibition at the Broken Hill Regional gallery (Nov 20) Silence and the symphony; notes from the barzakh was supported by createNSW. She has been included in prizes such as the outback art prize (encouragement award), the Blacktown Art prize (highly commended) and Hadley’s landscape art prize (honorable mention). Her work is held in numerous private collections in Australia and overseas and one public collection.

Mather has a background in literature (BA UniMelb, UAmsterdam), Printmaking, sculpture and time-based media (BFA) and Art, Design and Environment (MADE, UTas), Sufism (with F.A. Ali El Senossi),Martial arts (HL McFarlane) and Classical Arabic (MA, CSU).