Abu Dhabi-based Emirati visual artist Roudhah Al Mazrouei was born in Al Ain in 2003. From her younger years, Roudhah had an immense interest in art. Since 2016, she began honing her skills as a painter. Roudhah specializes in the medium of oil, incorporating surrealistic methodologies.
“Expressing myself through my Emirati culture, many of my paintings depict patriotic themes and the Emirati experience through a female lens,” says Roudhah.
She explains that her studio work is influenced by many things surrounding and inspiring her. It draws strongly on the complexity of the deeply rooted culture referenced through her memories and endeavors.
“I picture myself, an entity, a visual being, passing through these experiences, surveying and depicting what my eyes witness,” expresses Roudhah.
‘Ambience’ has always been at the forefront of her visual understanding, whether or not it was in her conscious mind. Her culture, the Emirati Culture’s history of civilization, nature, and ethics, inspires her to look into how our identities have been created, constructed, and transmitted through her angle of femininity and her understanding’s reiteration.
Roudhah was featured on Vogue Arabia, The National, Emirates TV, and many other local media channels for her work. She is a 2020 Bilingual International Baccalaureate Diploma graduate, where she specialized in Visual Arts at the Higher Level. As of 2022, she is a junior studying Visual Arts and Art History at New York University Abu Dhabi.
“Being an Emirati artist is an opportunity to portray my presence and perspective of the young female Emirati experience from a creative context,” expresses Roudhah.