Revolution Is Female

The opening reception for Revolution Is Female, a solo exhibition by Palestinian artist Rasha Eleyan. The exhibition explores the vital role of the revolutionary Palestinian woman through pop-inflected, photorealist paintings that bring together beauty, symbolism, domesticity, and female defiance. The reception will introduce the exhibition to invited guests, press, artists, collectors, and supporters, offering an opportunity to view the work, meet the artist and co-curators, and engage with the themes of visibility, agency, resistance, and celebration.

Rasha Eleyan

Artist / Co-curator Bio:

Rasha Eleyan, a Palestinian artist now based in the UK, is dedicated to preserving Palestinian heritage through her artwork, particularly from the perspective of revolutionary Palestinian women.

Her influences and inspiration is very pancontinental, her cartoon-like drawings came from her career at Disney television in Singapore and from her lifelong love for animation, while her realistic painting comes from her academic studies with BA in fine art from Jordan and advanced drawing painting studies in Rome. Fortunately, being born to the great Palestinian artist Nasr Abdelaziz Eleyan definitely played a huge part in her craft.

With color palette, elements and symbolisms deriving from the whole of the Arab world - as she was born and lived the first 18 years of her life in Dubai, then there’s the unmistakable influence of southeast Asia after she spent the past 20 years in Singapore and traveled the region - her Palestinian inspiration can be seen throughout her work.

Notable exhibitions include Arab Pop Art: Between East and West at the Middle East Institute in Washington, DC, Arab Spring and the Cradle of Civilization at the Orfali Art Gallery in Amman, and Heritage Wall at the Affordable Art Fair Singapore. Highlighting significant collaborations, she participated in the landmark exhibition Art of Palestine: From the River to the Sea at P21 Gallery in London, as well as Ganesha in the Arts at ION Art in Singapore. Additionally, her paintings were featured and sold in two separate editions of the Voices of Palestine auction held at The Dorchester, London.

Rasha, primarily known as a painter, boasts a diverse portfolio that extends beyond the canvas. With a successful career as a motion graphics designer, she has left her mark as the creator and animator of the “Letter Time” program on Walt Disney Television and participated with her animation at GIFFEST in Singapore.

Zayna Al-Saleh

Co-curator Bio:

Zayna Al-Saleh (b. 1991, London, UK) is a British-Palestinian art dealer, curator and art writer who operates independently. Between 2024 and 2026 she curated five major London auctions in aid of Palestine, raising a total of approximately $4 million. Artists included Peter Doig, Grayson Perry, Nan Goldin, Mona Hatoum, Antony Gormley, Katharine Hamnett, Jeremy Deller, Rana Begum, Jake and Dinos Chapman, Sophia Al-Maria, Rosalind Nashibibi, Chris Levine, Dima Srouji among many others.

Her most recent exhibitions include ‘Together For Palestine’ (Hope93, London, UK, 2026), ‘-cide series’, (The Flanders Architecture Institute (VAi), Het Bos, Antwerp, Belgium, 2026) ‘My People Will Return: In Air, In Water, In Light’ (TICK TACK, Antwerp, Belgium, 2025) '‘we ain’t dED yet’ (Gallery 46, London, UK, 2023)'A Child Is Born In Bethlehem' (Palazzo Oddo, Albenga, Italy, 2022); 'NO! 20 Years of Stop the War, A Visual Retrospective' (Bow Arts, London, UK, 2021).

Her auctions and exhibitions have been featured in The Art Newspaper, ART News, Wallpaper*, British Vogue, Vogue Arabia, ITV news, Spear’s, The Glossary, Grazia, The Independent, The Standard among many others.