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Salwa Arnous: Home

Dates
Online, from November 2026
Venue
Online
Curator
Palestinian Gallery

The gallery opens with Salwa Arnous. Across paintings, prints, calligraphy and assemblage, her work keeps returning to one subject: home, held onto, remembered and lost. Jerusalem appears through an open window, in a cut relief print and as a skyline at night. Homes appear as rubble, walked past by an old man with a cane or watched over by a dove. Grief is given faces: a father covering his eyes, a mother pressing her hands to hers. Alongside them sit the olive tree, the stone archway, the embroidered thobe and the keffiyeh, the ordinary things that carry a place forward.

Selected works

Open wooden shutters frame a view of Jerusalem: the golden Dome of the Rock, old-city towers and green trees below.

Looking Out on Jerusalem

Salwa Arnous · Painting

A black-and-white relief print of the Dome of the Rock under a sky of radiating cut lines.

Dome of the Rock

Salwa Arnous · Printmaking

A deep blue night skyline of domes and towers, with a white dove flying above.

Peace at Night

Salwa Arnous · Painting

An old man with a cane walks past the rubble of a house, an olive grove behind him.

Another Home Gone

Salwa Arnous · Painting

A white dove flies above the rubble of a demolished stone house; a woman in white sits nearby.

Lost Her Home

Salwa Arnous · Painting

A man in a keffiyeh covers his face with his hand against a dark red ground.

Grieving Father

Salwa Arnous · Painting

A woman in a white headscarf and red embroidered thobe presses clasped hands to her face, eyes closed.

Grieving Mother

Salwa Arnous · Painting

An older woman in a white headscarf and embroidered dress walks over rocky ground with a boy beside her.

Long Way Home

Salwa Arnous · Painting

An old olive tree in a sunlit field, set inside an embossed octagonal frame.

Olive Tree

Salwa Arnous · Painting

A stone archway hung with a green vine opens onto an inner stone passage and doorway.

Front Door

Salwa Arnous · Painting

A red-and-white keffiyeh pattern fills the canvas, crossed by a strand of barbed wire.

Palestinian Behind the Wire

Salwa Arnous · Painting

Gold and red Kufic calligraphy on a black and green ground.

God Is the Only God

Salwa Arnous · Calligraphy

Portrait of Salwa Arnous, smiling, in a white blouse and cardigan with pearl earrings.

About the artist

Salwa Arnous

Born in Jaffa, Palestine, Salwa Arnous makes art about home: the land, Jerusalem, the families who carry both with them, and what it means to lose them. Her paintings, prints, calligraphy and assemblages have been shown in San Antonio and she co-created the play Otherwise Occupied.

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