Farouk Kaspaules
Farouk Kaspaules is an Iraqi-born Canadian artist of Assyrian origin, noted for his engravings and silk-screen photography. Life and career. Born in Baghdad, Kaspaules left Iraq in the mid-1970s for political reasons. After a brief stay in the United States, he chose Canada as his country of exile. He received his art education, at the University of Ottawa where he received Bachelor degrees in Fine Arts and Art History in the mid-1980s He has contributed to the arts community in Canada, through his active involvement in artist-run centres and community organizations. He mixes traditional Arabic  iconography with modern symbols to produce works that reflect themes of exile, cultural displacement and related social issues. Work. Kaspaules works in oils and mixed media. He also executes engravings and silk-screen photography. During his first European exhibition in London, England, in 1993, he established links with other exiled artists from the Middle East, specifically from Iraq. These encounters led to a turning point in his artistic production, which became more politically explicit. He has participated in some 20 solo and collective exhibitions in Canada, England, Hungary, France, Chile and Brazil. Notable works