Following the trail from a Tweet and photo issued by Libyan writer, blogger and podcaster Ghazi Gheblawi, I am delighted to find that the famous Libyan artist from Misrata, Mohammad Bin Lamin, has assembled a fantastic album on Facebook of his art from Abu Salim Jail Tripoli where Bin Lamin was incarcerated throughout the revolution. I first wrote about his prison art on this blog on September 2, shortly after the liberation of Abu Salim jail. I based that piece on a news report from freed Abu Salim by the BBC's Middle East Editor Jeremy Bowen. It is wonderful to now have the privilege of accessing Bin Lamin's full Facebook album of his prison art. As well as his wall drawings, they include haunting sculptures of faces of fellow-prisoners fashioned from silver foil food containers (a sample is above). The Facebook site has a page of information on Bin Lamin and his place in Libyan art. It includes material from Ghazi Gheblawi's blog Imtidad.
Mohammad Bin Lamin: My Drawings on the walls in Abu Salim Jail - 6.Mohammad Bin Lamin was seized by Gaddafi forces from his Misrata studio on 18 February, together with his poet brother Elhabib Elamin, and taken off to Abu Salim jail in Tripoli. The drawing below bears both their names:
Mohammad Bin Lamin: My Drawings on the walls in Abu Salim Jail - 10.
Mohammad Bin Lamin: My Drawings on the walls in Abu Salim Jail - 11.
Mohammad Bin Lamin: My Drawings on the walls in Abu Salim Jail - 11.
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