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Al Braithwaite (Artist)

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Al Braithwaite was born in 1979 in a British Military Hospital, and grew up in Detmold, Germany and Episkopi, Cyprus before being sent to school overseas aged seven.

His first major exhibition was in Teheran (2002) with Galerie Seyhoun, at an unusual point in Iran's history. At the time only three exhibitions had been staged by foreigners since the Islamic Revolution (1979). He gained notoriety with his nomadic art style, travelling in a beat up red toyota pick-up truck all around countries in the middle east with a band of three other artists (Henry Hemming, Stephen Stapleton, Georgie Weedon). The journey was noted for coinciding with the Coalition Invasion of Iraq (March 2003), and was well documented in national media and released as books in both Off Screen (Braithwaite et al., 2004) and Misadventure in the Middle East (Hemming, 2007); as well as in a special edition titled Museum No. 1: Hizbollah's Caviar (Braithwaite, 2008).