Middle East Eye published Tim Cornwell's feature on 14 February 2020 on Kamal Boullata, under the headline Medieval to modernist: Palestinian artist inspired by Jerusalem's melting pot.
The piece is built around Jerusalem in Exile at the West Court Gallery, Jesus College, Cambridge, and opens with twelve abstract screen prints from the 1996 Granada portfolio, made in response to the Alhambra and its reflecting pools. Cornwell writes about Boullata's life between Jerusalem and later cities, and about geometry, colour and the city as a source. The gallery in Dubai is not named. The article notes that Boullata had died the previous year, at 77.
Cornwell also writes about Jerusalem as a city of many histories, and about how that mixture entered Boullata's move between geometry and colour. The Cambridge exhibition gathered work from a long career, including the Granada prints then hanging in the West Court Gallery.
Tabari presents the work of Kamal Boullata.
