Ayaa Hamada
Artist in Cairo, Egypt
Ayaa Hamada (born 1991,Cairo-Egypt) works as a full-time ceramic artist at the Replica Production Unit with the Egyptian Ministry of antiques since August 2019 till now ,she paints replicas of Islamic ceramic monuments such as Iznik plates, Andalusian vases and Persian ewers.
Ayaa was drawn into the world of ceramics especially Islamic ceramic art since she enrolled in a two years program at Jameel House of traditional arts and crafts in Cairo, she graduated in September 2018 majoring in ceramics.
In March 2019, she joined 'Rescuing the Mamluk minbars in Cairo' project which implemented in collaboration with the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities and it is funded by the British Council Cultural protection fund in partnership with DCMS.
Her ceramic tiles work inspired by Qaitbay’s minbar inside Khanqah faraj ibn barquq which is a unique minbar made of stone, The work displayed In March 2019 at Bayet El-razzaz in Cairo and in September 2019 at The Egyptian Cultural and Educational Bureau in London.
She delivered several workshops about Islamic art, two collaborative workshops about traditional coloring methods of geometric Islamic patterns at Egyptian Cultural and Educational Bureau-London and two workshops in Egypt at Bayet elrazzaz In total of 40 person.
She delivered sculpture and Ceramics workshops and worked as Islamic art tutor at Bayt Yakan (historic house in Cairo) for children and women of El-Darab-Elahmar in Egypt (August 2018- September 2019).
Ayaa holds a bachelor’s degree in Communication & electronics engineering from the faculty of Engineering , Helwan University (2012)-Egypt.