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Swadeka is an award winning artist, Muslim News Al-Hamra award, in art & Culture. Have been in touch with Unesco/Uk creative cities network, whose aim is to strengthen co-operation with and among cities that have recognised creativity as a strategic factor of Sustainable Development as regards to economic, social, cultural and environmental aspects.
Swadeka as well followed an international 2 days International Conference at the Unesco in Paris. on Innovating Documentary Heritage for Sustainable Development The Conference was divided into various sessions such as supporting documentary dialogue on heritage, culture in the Arab regions enhancing Arabic Scripts, reviving, preserving them in their various interpretations using modern technical tools such as AI etc. The Conference was attended by Arab Ambassadors, diplomats, researchers, academics, museums stakeholders, artists, etc.
Swadeka Ahsun is a curator and is engaged on cultural heritage for the 2030 agendas.
Culture is critical for Sustainable development and as well activist for change. She executed as proof of commitment to culture and artistic creation, enabling to set up addressing cultural
Her artistic practice inline with collaboration, shares best practice in developing partnership that promote creativity and culture, strengthening participation in participating in cultural life as well as integrating culture in development plans, and supporting the UN frameworks particularly the 2030 agenda for sustainable development, art, media, craft.
In her correspondence with Unesco/UK, she stressed that it is important that policy makers, stakeholders, creativity and culture is linked with areas of economic development with galleries, museums, organisations, networks, artists etc, share every piece of the journey, placing art and culture at the heart of development process for sustainable development and appreciation of cultural diversity and culture’s contribution to sustainable development. This highlight the importance of arts and culture in terms of engaging citizens in the development of transferable skills, cultivating confidence wither social, educational and scientific. The strategic factor for sustainable development is taking broad view of culture from art institutions and creative industries, historic environments, museums, galleries, community and art festivals in increasing it continuity and is therefore a framework and future for the UN Agenda 2030, reducing equality, enhancing positive impact and major challenges in given space for trust and cultural dialogue and hence play a global agendas with pluralistic identity. It as well improve democratic participation, recognising shared vision, securing an open and true dialogue. The use of the SDG’s and the 17 goals is the mechanism for the 2030 agendas. And it is important to connect to the vision and the use of the targets specific to the framework of action with the mechanism made of monitoring progress.
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The artist – Swadeka Ahsun, BA,MA, FRSA
Swadeka ahsun is an international artist, having exhibited in the UK, Europe, Middle-East, the Gulf and had been invited in Mauritius where she was born to display her artworks. She won a few prizes as well and her works are in collection at home and abroad. She has given interviews on various media subjects and on community issues.
Swadeka’s works depict various aspect of Islamic art. She painted on various sizes and some large canvasses in single and multiple colours. Most of her artworks had been inspired by Islam, its cultural heritage, its splendour, its glorious achievement of the renaissance and the symmetry of Islamic architecture. She had done portray of nature in various adaptation of landscape and portray. Her works as well range from traditional Islamic patterns and geometric imagery. Given the supreme importance of the words of God as set down in the Quran and its transmission throughout the Islamic world, the traditional emphasis upon the primacy of the written word serve to elevate Arabic Calligraphy into pre-eminent form of artistic expression, a level it never attain in some other traditions.
Islamic Calligraphy, within the interactions with the Western developments help stimulate stylistic innovations. Her own practice is situated at the cutting edge of the modern calligraphic styles in the visual arts that incorporate contemporary ideas and Western Media. Swadeka use bright acrylic washes on the canvass which is created by the brush as well as the reed and the pen. As poetry is the very essence of the Arab World and Islam, which sometimes is expressed in culture and history, Swadeka tried to use poetical rhythm in some of her works. She enhanced her ideas and multiply it in various techniques and approaches, painting and drawing, printmaking and mixed media. Swadeka has made use of colour with sobriety and intelligent swift.
Swadeka art take various forms, like Calligraphy and Islamic geometry. Islamic geometry help in making graphic elements and patterns. The study of sensible geometry lead to skill in all practical arts, while the study of intelligible geometry lead o skill in the intellectual art, because the science is one of the gate through which humanity move to the knowledge of the essence of the soul.
Swadeka has made use of vibrant colour compositions, cosmic metaphors and imagery as well as fantastic landscapes and sceneries, and attempted to find synthesis between modern painting and traditional painting. Through her personal development and research, she developed interest in the renaissance, and welcome new ideas and breaking new grounds. She worked with new experimentation and techniques, freely mixing them with whatever way, therefore advancing the vitality of some of her paintings.
The foreground of dappled colours, flickering brushwork, washes create tremendous feeling of surging movement. The textures of some of her sceneries has come as important ingredients. This is noticeable in the works of some of her sceneries, such as ‘spiritual garden’, or ‘meditation by the sea’. Swadeka take great pain in portraying seductive movements of transition like ‘gazing in the spiritual garden’, or the autumn scene etc. Most of her paintings and works have elements of composition, light, colour, technique as well as atmosphere beautifully joised.
Swadeka worked hard and strive under the pressure to move to new horizon and felt excited by the challenge that had come on her way.
Swadeka had been engaged with Creative Europe, working together as partner with other Member State of the European Union in various projects, designed to support the work of the European Commission. The works has been designed in various models and is targeted to reach a wide audience in various artistic ability, heritage, promoting world cultures and the arabesque
Swadeka having already won various awards in the past most recently won the Muslim News Award 2016, the Alhamra Award for her artistic contribution around Europe and internationally.
She is a member of the Royal Society of Art
Swadeka won the Muslim News Al-Hamra prize in art, culture and heritage, for her contribution to art, culture and sustainable development. She contributes to policy development including UNESCO World Heritage Institute.
She co-ordinates the activities of the SDG’s working group, monitors progress to support implementation of the SDG’s action plan for Cultural heritage. She advocates for the role of cultural factors and actor in the UN Agenda 2030 and sustainable development goal and sustainable future.