Glasgow International Festival of Contemporary Art
 

Hussein Mitha

A large yellow cleaning sponge that has been decorated with different coloured paints, assorted types of tape, and mini human figurines.
Punk Sponge
Collaborative artwork by various young artists
Courtesy of Rumpus Room
A handpainted postcard depicting a field with a group of flowers with faces and bodies dance whilst holding hands in a circle, whilst another plant watches them.
artist unknown, Loose Tomatoes, Date unknown
Found postcard hand painted
A photograph featuring a group of people gardening in planters outside of a building. The building has a circular logo sign with the text 'Rumpus Room'.
Courtesy of Rumpus Room

A photograph featuring a large group of people sitting in an outdoor space in front of a building. The space is also filled with gardening and creative supplies.
Courtesy of Rumpus Room

Place holder

Hussein Mitha lives in Glasgow. They often work with children and young people pursuing radical education at places such as Red Sunday School and Rumpus Room. Their work always stems from anti-imperialist and communist currents. They recently edited Paradise Now! A climate justice handbook for young people, with Deveron Projects 2022-23. Their collection, Vegetal Soul was published by Rosie’s Disobedient Press in 2023. Their visual art encompasses text and colour collages in vinyl decals and murals. Their 2023 mural, Wir Weben! (We weave!) at Agit, in Berlin, is a curse against the German state, inspired by Heinrich Heine's poem of the same name, and has at its centre a reproduction of a postage stamp made during the German Democratic Republic in solidarity with the Palestinian people.

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