Ilyas Kassam

BIO
Born in 1986 in the UK, Ilyas Kassam is a British Indian Visual Artist and Poet. Drawing from Japanese and Arabic calligraphic traditions, his works centres around the notion of infinity and the role language plays within the mystical experience. Ilyas is known for his large textual paintings on rice paper, that have an explosive yet meditative quality.

Ilyas is a self taught artist whose education emerged out of an immersive 5 year period of meditation and self discovery. His current works consist mostly of mix media on Kozo rice paper. These large sculptural paintings hold a very immediate gestural quality to them. His process is intense, performative and is implicative of a religious practice.