Merav Sudaey’s works and the images comprising them are drawn from observation of her social and national setting, often addressing issues pertaining to current affairs, such as struggle, war, terror, and bereavement.
Sudaey was born and raised in Nahariya, a city on the Israeli-Lebanese border that was at the center of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict during her childhood years. Life under constant, intense threat led her, as an adult artist, to explore themes pertaining to the routine of danger, human tragedy, and violence.
Concurrently, her work explores the reciprocity between East and West, between the traditional and the modern, the local and the global.
Sudaey’s sources of inspiration are diverse: from press photographs, through documentary materials from various scenes of action, to photographs from her family album. She frequently incorporates autobiographical details relating to the process of maturation and the passage from girlhood to womanhood in her pieces.
Sudaey works in mixed media, such as oil and acrylic on canvas, as well as traditional techniques, such as sewing, embroidery, or imitation of various handicrafts. Through these techniques and the choice of images she describes the harsh reality and atrocity routine aesthetically and decoratively.
Her works are held in various private and museum collections, among them: the Collection of the Israel Museum, Jerusalem; Mishkan Museum of Art, Ein Harod; the Brandes Family Collection; the Schocken Collection; the Igal Ahouvi Art Collection; Julie M. Gallery Collection, and other private collections. In addition, her works are regularly reviewed in the local and foreign press. She holds an MFA from the University of Haifa (2007) and an Art Teacher’s Diploma from the Midrasha School of Art, Beit Berl Academic College (2000).
Merav Sudaey’s works and the images comprising them are drawn from observation of her social and national setting, often addressing issues pertaining to current affairs, such as struggle, war, terror, and bereavement.
Sudaey was born and raised in Nahariya, a city on the Israeli-Lebanese border that was at the center of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict during her childhood years. Life under constant, intense threat led her, as an adult artist, to explore themes pertaining to the routine of danger, human tragedy, and violence.
Concurrently, her work explores the reciprocity between East and West, between the traditional and the modern, the local and the global.
Sudaey’s sources of inspiration are diverse: from press photographs, through documentary materials from various scenes of action, to photographs from her family album. She frequently incorporates autobiographical details relating to the process of maturation and the passage from girlhood to womanhood in her pieces.
Sudaey works in mixed media, such as oil and acrylic on canvas, as well as traditional techniques, such as sewing, embroidery, or imitation of various handicrafts. Through these techniques and the choice of images she describes the harsh reality and atrocity routine aesthetically and decoratively.
Her works are held in various private and museum collections, among them: the Collection of the Israel Museum, Jerusalem; Mishkan Museum of Art, Ein Harod; the Brandes Family Collection; the Schocken Collection; the Igal Ahouvi Art Collection; Julie M. Gallery Collection, and other private collections. In addition, her works are regularly reviewed in the local and foreign press. She holds an MFA from the University of Haifa (2007) and an Art Teacher’s Diploma from the Midrasha School of Art, Beit Berl Academic College (2000).
