Abu Jafar Visual Artist / Sculptor

One my Way

"Connection"

Midnight Dream

Mist of Twilight

"Night after day"

Hope@Monnow Vally

‘Falling Leaves

Hope @2021

Wonder Burghley

Poppy

Abu Jafar (Visual Artist / Sculptor) is an acclaimed leading British International artist and Philosopher of the arts. He is living and working in the United Kingdom.

Born on March 21, 1968 in a small village called Jhilna, Patuakhali, Bangladesh.

He studied, Philosophy of Arts, at the Open University 1997 UK. Art and Art History, Goldsmith’s College, the University of London, UK 1991/92. Master Drawing of the human figure - Guildhall University, London in1989/90 UK and Fine arts, painting and drawing at the Institute of Fine Arts, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh 1984/89.

In 2021 become a member of the Visual Artist Association, in 2011 become a Fellow of Digswell Arts Trust, UK, in 2008 become a member of the Sculpture Network and in 2007 an Associates Member of the Royal British Society of Sculptors.

In his words:

“I gather elements through my emotional experiences, then transform them into the art forms, which could incorporate anything and everything that’s around me.” - Abu Jafar

Taking inspiration from psychology, philosophy, classical music as well as day-to-day human existence. By producing art that is far from traditional, He is actively attempting to shatter staid ideas of the past regarding art; his art is the synthesis of the colour, element, and presentation twisted into unusual forms. Most of his large scale Installations involved nature, the public, and the environment. Jafar's work simplifies our daily lives and the diversity of mankind in his imaginative notion in a way that reflects imaginative power and the ever-changing creative flow of new formative arts.

Jafar's sculpture has been about celebrating our ever-changing curiosity of mind and symbolises the beauty that keeps us wonder in every step we make and every angle we look. It is the endless journey to find a betterment of our unknown needs. The journey to in which we are going through our hopes and visions, each day creating a new chapter and looking forward to seeing something more that is undisclosed. Every structure signifies metaphorically the letter H for hope, and the window of the structure signifies a window of opportunity driving endlessly forward. Some ornaments of this sculpture will reflect the beauty of the nature and light the way it's beam throw in our memory and our everyday life today. These sculptures are all about nature wonder where our mind explores like biomedical science, reading through pulse and looking through eyes and discover. This sculpture has a sense of finished and unfinished mood that creates a question mark like a jigsaw puzzle. It offers a new way of looking at and discovering.

Most of his large scale Installations involved nature, public and the environment. His work simplifies our daily lives and the diversity of mankind in his imaginative notion in a way that reflects imaginative power and ever changing creative forces of new formative arts.

'Jafar’s grasp of subject power of vision and ability to assimilate may surprise many'
- Writer Anis Choudhury-Dhaka

'Abu Jafar is a committed and established artist with a strong exhibition record in the UK. His use of a rich range of media and breadth of concern has earned the artist the wide respect of his peers in London'
-Marjorie Allthorpe-Guyton, Director of Visual Arts, Arts Council of England

'Abu Jafar is a very energetic and gifted artist who has worked in a wide range of media, including installation, performance as well as sculpture and painting.'
- Isoble Johnston, Curator, Arts Council Collection

'His installations are placed in our public spaces - in amongst our everyday lives. Their beauty and lack of pomp garners our curiosity - we approach them openly. Curiosity is the most wonderful of human instincts because it removes us from the momentum of our daily lives and it opens our minds. In opening our minds, we can explore new ideas, imagine positive change and therefore create our own new sense of coherence. This coherence gives us hope; hope gives us the ability to create our own futures based on the new context we find ourselves in. Abu's work isn't an explanation of hope, it is a gift of hope to those who engage with it'
- Anne Cunningham, Chief Executive, The Art House

'Hope can be static and even negative, but a positive form of hope perhaps involves the movement of a journey. Abu Jafar's series of installations invites a 'journey' from one to the next, but the viewer can also journey among them, catching the changing reflection of light through the various pieces of coloured glasswork, studying the curving lines of patches of colour inscribed on each installation... Making meanings of all this can be seen as a form of fruitful involvement, of hope'
- Mark Treharne, Author

'What impresses a viewer a Jafar’s painting, though his meagre output notwithstanding, is a sense of total dedication that he brings to in his work. One feels that Jafar is pouring out his whole being into his work, which speaks of his deep convictions and his belief in humanity and the power of love to transform the world, Amour Vincent Omni a could as well be a natural theme for Jafar'
- Professor Dr. S. Manzoorul Islam, University of Dhaka

'His work is vibrant in colour and depicts the brighter side of lie, paintings of internal love between man and woman as well as humanity and harmony between people. The desire to depict on canvas a world free of suffering and social injustice has been fouled by his own experiences and his determination to succeed as an artist has given him a greater insight into the struggle of others'
- Debbie Sellman, Art Critic

'The blurring of distinction between figure and ground is a major factor in decorative art. In the classical arabesque rhythm and pattern sweep both terms into an active mixture. In Islamic traditions, writing and decorative design become similarly fused, design and sign become one form. Jafar’s work welds together signature and painterly decoration as a ground, which then, (after a while) emerges as a figure working energetically within the environment. This shared emerging figure is endlessly at home because it continually draws its own ground. Rather than basing a landscape on a grid we find its foundation in the movement of a dynamic arabesque in a flourish of signatures'
- Phil King, Artist & Art Critic

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