Each of the following artists have contributed with a selection of items to be exhibited and sold at August Fifth’s shop. The collaborations started between Sham and her friends from the creative field and it is gradually growing to include various global artists whose path crossover with Sham’s.
Tulip Hazbar.
Tulip Hazbar is a Graphic designer and illustrator based in the United Arab Emirates.
Xeina AlMalki.
Xeina AlMalki is a Syrian ceramicist based in Dubai, UAE. She holds a Bachelor of Interior Design from the American University of Sharjah (2016). In 2011, Xeina shifted her focus to ceramics and has been dedicated to developing her practice in the UAE. Xeina’s work is rooted in craftsmanship and understanding the relationship between traditional methods of making and experimentation.
Jana Kleine-Kalmer.
Jana holds a degree in interior architecture and has been working in renowned design and architecture practices for a decade. Born and raised in the german countryside, the artist currently lives and works in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Farah Alimi.
Farah Alimi is an illustrator / painter based Marseille, France. Having pure nostalgia for her childhood in Damascus, Farah commenced to embrace every memory, family secret and story told by her grandparents by putting it all on paper using fibre tip pens and acrylic paint.
Sham Enbashi.
Sham is a Syrian architect and photographer who grew up in Dubai and currently lives in The Netherlands. Graduated with Bachelors of Architecture and Design at the American University of Sharjah, she worked as a senior architect in various firms for the following 8 years, the most recent is Studio PietBoon in Amsterdam. In 2020 she transitioned into pursuing her art photography full time and in August the same year she started August Fifth.
Martina Bianchi.
Martina Bianchi is an Italian Interior Stylist and Trend Researcher currently living and working in Amsterdam. She graduated in Architecture at Universita’ degli Studi di Ferrara-Italy. Passionate about art, she collects objets trouvés which acquires different meanings through the creation of domestic installations.
Sarah-Linda Forrer.
Rooted in the French Art de Vivre, Sarah’s passion for eating well and celebrating life developed itself into tableware and interior accessories. It’s that essential connection between food and humans that drives her everyday to create sensual tableware. Sensual, because of the feminine shapes and the triggering of the senses.
Arden Oluk.
Arden, a multi-instrumentalist artist who captures and transmutes reality and life stories that take you on a voyage of vivid stories that feel so intimate like they are yours. Born in 1982 in Istanbul, Arden is trained at Belleryby’s Art&Design Foundation in the UK, followed up with a BA in Fashion Design at the University of Westminister.
Faissal El-Malak.
Faissal El-Malak is a Palestinian artist and designer brought up between Montreal, Canada and Qatar. Prior to moving back to the region to launch his fashion brand in Dubai, he trained as a fashion designer in Paris’ Atelier Chardon Savard. El-Malak’s approach to self-expression and embodiment of contemporary Arab identity and diaspora is core to his central practice, which is agnostic towards genre and medium.
Rania Al Jishi.
Jishi is a multidisciplinary artist; specialized illustration, and pottery and art education, she is also the founder of NAQD, artist-run critique sessions organized in the UAE, Her educational experience includes working with DCT, Abu Dhabi, Sharjah Art Foundation, The Guggenheim Abu Dhabi, Art Dubai, NYUAD and other organizations.
Rasha Dakkak.
Rasha Dakkak is a designer, educator, and researcher. She is the editor-in-chief and creative director of Bayn Journal, a bilingual journal advocating the urgency of shaping a climate that stimulates and supports the discourse on graphic design in the Arab world.
Theo Houben.
Theo Houben is a self taught artist through his immediate environment and his painters colleagues. Theo’s paintings are the outcome of exploring man in his many guises and moods. Despite the consistency of the base of the content ( people in their environment), Theo seeks to discover the many versions of man in an unlimited or restricted style of painting.
Nahla Tabbaa.
Nahla earned her MA in Curatorial Practice from the Bath School of Art and Design (2012) , and her BFA in sculpture from Central Saint Martin’s College of Art and Design (2009). In addition to being an artist, she is currently an educator and urban researcher with various institutions including Art Jameel, Frying Pan Adventures and Sharjah Art Foundation. She is co-founder of Daftar Asfar, an artist sketchbook platform.
Mireia Lopez.
Mireia is a visual artist studying the endless interpretations of the female body and its sexuality in the outmost minimal expression and balanced composition. She is based in Amsterdam, where she has been pursuing her passion for art and defining her artistic identity. As well as original pieces in large canvases, her work is available in limited Glicee prints and screen-prints.
Sepideh Jahanpanah.
Sepideh Jahanpanah is an artist and a ceramist based in The Hague. She received her BA at the Art University, Esfahan and her MA Artistic Research at the Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague. Next to conceptual artworks, she nowadays makes sculptural cups. In her art practice, Jahanpanah is interested in natural processes such as eroded rocks and organic structures on a microscopic scale, which have become the source of inspiration for her ceramics as well.
Cyril Vibert.
Cyril works with clay to create unique and one-offs pieces with each of them approached individually. At the moment he is mainly using black clay with minimal glaze on it.