May Qadoura Jordanian , b. 1971

May Qadoura is a Jordanian-Palestinian multidisciplinary artist. Her creative journey traverses continents, rooted between Amman and the UK.

Her practice weaves installation, sculpture, painting, and mixed media. Materials serve as both medium and message. Qadoura’s hands echo ancestral gestures, drawing from the traditions of embroidery and crochet. She entwines these with organic and repurposed materials. Through ritualistic repetition, she conjures spaces of reflection, resilience, and healing. Each piece meditates on feminism, identity, and the collective memory of her heritage.

Qadoura’s work explores identity, displacement, and inherited memory through a nonlinear story. She uses installation, sculpture, and painting. Her materials—recycled crochet, found items, handmade paper, gauze, and threads—are chosen for their domestic, cultural, and emotional resonance, referencing traditional crafts and lived experience. Each piece contributes to a visual language in which her personal stories mix with collective history.

She investigates how conflict reverberates upon the female body and domestic space. Drawing from feminist theory and autoethnography, she illuminates trauma, care, and resistance in material form. Craft techniques, such as embroidery and crochet, are central to her process. These acts of labor and ritual repetition reimagine history through touch, time, and endurance.

Her eco-art methodologies extend this inquiry to the land itself. She places her practice in dialogues of loss, survival, and ecological precarity. Through stitching, layering, and mark-making, she evokes absence and fragility. Yet her works quietly affirm endurance.

Her works, whether intimate or immersive, invite reflection rather than resolution. Each piece creates a space of quiet tension, urging viewers to witness, remember, and interpret. Personal memory is transmuted into a resonant, shared experience.