Bio

Fatemah Alqahtani is a writer, artist and assistant professor from Saudi Arabia who expresses her intellectual longing for ideas through creative practices (writing & art-making). Fatemah’s creative engagement is a search for new realities beyond traditional frameworks to generate awareness, dialogue, reconciliation, courage and empathy. This interest has also been motivated by a personal focus on art as a metaphoric observation and means by which personal thoughts, memories, and ideas can creatively be expressed through various mediums.

Alqahtani has lectured in the visual arts department at the PNU University in Riyadh KSA since 2012. In part, Alqahtani's research interests include Art engagement in the discipline of Creative Arts Practice while her art artmaking reflects her identity as a Saudi artist who is influenced by a modern Islamic art movement. As an artist, Alqahtani has been an exhibiting artist since 2007, presenting her artworks in Saudi Arabia, Australia, China and Dubai UAE.