Local and international talent celebrated at World Art Dubai awards

Local and international talent celebrated at World Art Dubai awards

World Art Dubai AwardsThe World Art Dubai Awards sees four winners take home prizes with the victors unanimously selected by World Art Dubai's expert curators, Batool Jafri, the ‘Emirates Woman of the Year 2018'; Samar Kamel, an Egyptian artist, curator and author; and Petra Kaltenbach, a fine artist, videographer and graphic designer.Magda Malkoun, from Artezaar Online Art Gallery,who won the award for Best Emerging Artist, said; “I'm really honoured to be given the Emerging Artist award, it's very humbling. World Art Dubai is a great platform for emerging artists, it's both world and locally renowned with a huge mix of cultures and nationalities. I've been drawing since I was very young but really started to put my time into it over the past five years.”Scooping the award for Best Gallery was the Latin-American Pavilion. Speaking shortly after the announcement, organiser Alvaro Cirillo said; “We are very excited and proud to receive this award. This is our first time exhibiting in World Art Dubai and we hope to be here again next year and the following years as well. We won the Best Gallery Award for the Latin American gallery exhibition which is so rewarding as it is a representation of