Using an unusual technique of
colouring gelatine silver prints by hand or
drawing over
colour prints — part photography and part painting — he creates an imaginary reality that reflects both the paradoxes of the Middle East today and the flamboyant fantasies of the
golden age of Egyptian film in the cosmopolitan pre-revolutionary years in Cairo.
, Mo Space Manila; Equator Art Projects Singapore, 2014; Jerwood 20 Years, The Jerwood Gallery, Hastings, 2014;
Golden Sections, thewindshow@CPT, London, 2014; Head to Head, Rogue Project Space, Manchester, 2013; Small is Beautiful XXI Who's Afraid of Red Yellow & Blue, Flowers, London, 2013; Theory & Practice of the Small Painting, Equator Art Projects, Singapore 2013;
Colour as Material, Finnish Academy of fine Arts, Helsinki, 2013; RA Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2012; Back and Forth, B55 Contemporary Art Gallery, Budapest, 2012;
Drawing 2011,
Drawing Room, London, 2011.