Arab News published Uncovering hidden meanings with Saudi artist Lulwah Al Homoud, a profile by Dalal Awienat, on 10 July 2025. It was written after the artist was featured at The Digital Art Mile in Basel, Switzerland, which ran alongside Art Basel, presented by the Sigg Art Foundation.
Awienat focuses on The Language of Existence, the series in which Al Homoud gives each letter of the Arabic alphabet its own geometric form. "I created different geometric shapes assigned to each letter," she explains. "I kind of created a new language that cannot be read, but can be felt more." The profile traces her path: she always drew portraits and landscapes but wanted a career, gained a bachelor's degree in sociology, began studying visual communication in the late 1990s and later took her master's at Central Saint Martins in London. Learning about the ideas behind Islamic art and geometry, she says, showed her a more universal language, "where art and science meet." The article also notes that she founded Isdar, an art centre in Riyadh dedicated to teaching fine art and printing and to inspiring young Saudi artists.
Born in Riyadh in 1967, Lulwah Al Homoud trained under the calligrapher Rasheed Butt, and her coded compositions on the 99 names of God have been shown as silkscreens, bound books and light boxes, including in Beyond the Grid at Tabari. She is represented by Tabari.
