Saadeh George is a member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists and graduated in Medicine from the American University of Beirut. She moved to London in 1984 where she later studied Fine Art at Central St Martin's College of Art, obtaining a BA in Fine Arts in 1997. For her thesis, she explored issues of 'Otherness', identity and the portrayal of war images in Art and the media.

 

Saadeh's work is permeated with both an awareness of human fragility and suffering and the possibilities of physical and mental healing. Her last exhibition, Dialogues of the Present', 1999-2000, was mainly installation work in which translucent and fragile materials were used to reflect the fragility of life and the multiple layers of human experience. Tissue paper, gauze, resin and surgical sutures made and sutured together moulds of parts of the human body in a symbolic ritual of healing and integration.

 

Turbulent Sunset is based in memories of gorgeous sunsets in Lebanon combined with the pain of watching images of war in the media