Azza Zein
PhD Economics
MFA Fine Arts
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I acknowledge the Traditional Owners of the land on which I work, and live, the Boonwurung, and Wurundjeri people of the Kulin nation. I pay my respects to their Elders, past, present and emerging.
Women’s Art Register, Common Threads at Seventh Gallery, December 2021.
The Common Threads game was named after a community arts project that ran at the Carringbush Library in Richmond In 1985. The aim is to revisit the Women's Art Register archive playfully and critically. The game was conceived and developed by Azza Zein, and Sophie Calalesina in consultation with Caroline Phillips’s knowledge of the archive.
The design of the icons and board is based on the Arabic Barjeez game and materials from W.A.R.'s archive including the Women's Art Forum logo designed by Erica McGilchrist.
Participants work together through all the cards. Each square has a symbol attached for four sets of cards: 1. Writing 2. Drawing 3. Action 4. Making. Each card has a question to interact with the archive, which are based on prompts from the archives. Questions revolve around ways to draw on and critically engage with previously inclusive exhibitions with artists of diverse backgrounds through this playful exploration.
See article written by Azza Zein, ARI REMIX + EXTRA ZINE NEWSLETTER | ISSUE #7 | WINTER 2023 edited by Paul Andrew or see pdf
A second iteration of this workshop happened at George Paton Gallery in 2025 in conjunction with Landmarks 75/25: 50 years of the Women’s Art Register curated by Merren Ricketson and Kirsty Gorter. https://www.womensartregister.org/blog/landmarks-75-25
Seventh Gallery, 2021
All photo documentation by Kati Javan
George Paton Gallery, 2025