Anwar Shemza
Small exhibition at Tate Britain of work by Anwar Shemza, an artist who was born in Pakistan and moved to Britain in 1959. Having spent time looking at Islamic art in museums he developed a style based on calligraphy and Islamic architecture. The work could partly fall into the idea of geometric abstraction with one work based on the infinite possibility of combining the images of a circle and a square. I liked the works which developed an Islamic letter into an abstract form and the later work which combined an image of a plant on top with Islamic text creating the roots.