12/06/2026
Last Saturday, we visited ‘Cross Scripts’ at LAWRIE SHABIBI a summer exhibition where the lines between art, design, architecture, and craft are deliberately blurred.
The works unfold across intersecting visual languages, where geometry takes on ornamental qualities, functional objects shift into sculptural form, and familiar references are reworked through contemporary material approaches.
Spanning painting, sculpture, furniture, jewellery, and textiles, the exhibition draws subtle links between materials and methods, tracing how ideas of making travel across disciplines, histories, and geographies.
It’s an exhibition that reveals itself slowly, rewarding close looking as connections between works begin to surface over time.
On view this summer at Lawrie Shabibi Gallery Unit 21, Alserkal Avenue