DESYPHER is announcing a Art in Architecture Design competition for our ICV (Islamic Council of Victoria) renovation project in Melbourne, Australia. This competition is open to all budding artists who intend to enhance the spatial experience of ICV newly renovated prayer hall.

The main objective is to explore the relationship and interaction between ‘art and architecture’. Architecture is a repository for art, where art is expressed in architecture. The entry should express how art and architecture affect and are affected by each other, complementing to the current global debate between the ‘container’ and the ‘contents’.

For further information, the Competition Brief can be downloaded from this link: Art in Architecture Competition Desypher ICV 2010

The ROOTS exhibition was opened on Friday 21 May.  Crooked Rib Art is no stranger in the art scene of Melbourne.  It is an arts collective started by young Muslim female artists who not only aim to challenge perceptions of themselves but also work to question perceptions of current social issues through the public art domain.

Art, in its diverse mediums, is a platform that creates opportunities for crooked rib art to work with/for the wider community and consequently elicit social change through education.

The manifestation of this dhikr through such contemporary mediums as photography and graphic design is a natural consequence of our immediate environment and our earnest attempt as living creatures to manifest our spiritual place in the here and now. Peter’s photography is as much about the spiritual as it is about the visual, offering no questions or answers but rather affording the viewer to simply being in that moment and that moment at first glance seems to curiously exist without time or consequence. Tthere is a present quietness about it that shares the essence of purpose of the art and architecture of the past through contemporary mediums, one of the quintessential markers of the true Muslim artist. (Nur Skhembi)