Harper's Bazaar Arabia published A Look At The Meditative Works Of Saudi Artist Lulwah Al Homoud, a profile by Rebecca Anne Proctor, on 27 June 2026. The piece begins with the experience of standing before her work, in which patterned forms seem to move like performers on a stage, and explains how she uses Arabic letters to build abstract compositions on paper that join the rhythms of calligraphy and geometry.
Proctor writes about Beyond the Grid, Al Homoud's exhibition at Tabari, where she presented large minimalist works that recall the geometric forms of Optical Art, including 50 silkscreens from her series on the 99 names of God, displayed as limited edition bound books. "I research the hidden rules of creation," the artist says. The article explains that the Vedic square, a multiplication grid on nine by nine squares first developed in North India, shapes many of her compositions, with the first nine stages of the creation of man taking the place of numbers.
Born in Riyadh in 1967, Lulwah Al Homoud studied sociology at King Saud University and took an MA at Central Saint Martins in London, later training under the calligrapher Rasheed Butt. Proctor lists exhibitions at the Sharjah Calligraphy Museum, Sundaram Tagore Galleries and the Barjeel Art Foundation, and describes The Language of Existence, the coded script for the 99 names, as a lifelong project. Lulwah Al Homoud is represented by Tabari.
