About

Abdulaziz Alrabea is a Kuwait-based artist and lab technician at Studio Khemiae, a community darkroom dedicated to analogue photography and alternative printing processes. His artistic practice revolves around film photography and material-based techniques such as cyanotype, Van Dyke and liquid emulsion printing. With a background in Mechanical Engineering from Glasgow, Abdulaziz merges technical precision with poetic experimentation, building a practice that is both tactile and conceptually grounded. His work centres on material-based techniques, often using personal and found imagery to explore memory, cultural rituals and storytelling through surface and process.

Since 2023, he has been leading workshops at Studio Khemiae, sharing alternative processes with a growing local community of artists, students, and photography enthusiasts. Beyond teaching, he helps organise exhibitions, film screenings and cultural gatherings that reframe analogue photography as a living, communal and experimental medium.

His work has been exhibited at spaces including the Abdullah Al-Salem Cultural Centre (ASCC), where he participated in the Creative Printing Conference 2024 as a guest artist. Abdulaziz was a participating artist in the SADI 2025 Ancestral Bonds exhibition with a project titled Tales in Stone, an installation inspired by storytelling elements found in Sadu weaving craft, reimagined through a contemporary lens.

Abdulaziz is committed to preserving slow artistic processes while fostering new, sustainable methods of creative production.