Yuhana Nashmi (Arabic: يوهانا النشمي; Mandaic: ࡉࡅࡄࡀࡍࡀ ࡍࡀࡔࡌࡉ) is an Iraqi-Australian visual artist and ceramicist.[1][2]
Early life
Nashmi was born in Baghdad, Iraq.[3] His malwasha (baptismal name) is Ram bar Sharat Semat (Classical Mandaic: ࡓࡀࡌ ࡁࡓ ࡔࡀࡓࡀࡕ ࡎࡉࡌࡀࡕ, romanized: Ram br Šarat Simat). In Iraq, he was initiated as a tarmida. He immigrated to Australia in the early 2000s after living in Amman, Jordan from 1998–2000.[4]
Career
In the mid-2010s, Nashmi collaborated with Christine Robins (née Allison) of the University of Exeter on The Worlds of Mandaean Priests project to document the Mandaean priesthood. Nashmi served as a field worker and cultural consultant for the project.[5]
In 2018, Nashmi created Sh-ken-ta, an exhibition of a shkinta (reed house used for Mandaean priestly rituals), as a site-specific installation at the Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre.[6][7]
Nashmi also exhibited artwork at the Georges River in 2022.[10] As of 2023, he currently works in art psychotherapy and ceramics tutoring, and runs NeshmART Studio in the Sydney metropolitan area.[11]
^Gelbert, Carlos (2017). "Colophon of Sheykh Salah". The Teachings of the Mandaean John the Baptist. Fairfield, NSW, Australia: Living Water Books. p. 175. ISBN9780958034678. OCLC1000148487. And there are two disciples [assisting] me who came from Iraq, the land of Babel (aka u-mur kai trin tarmidia mn īaraq babil [?] aktun). One of them is called Alaa (علاء) al-Našmi by name and his family name is al-bu-Zahrun.
^Buckley, Jorunn Jacobsen (2023). 1800 Years of Encounters with Mandaeans. Gorgias Mandaean Studies. Vol. 5. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press. ISBN978-1-4632-4132-2. ISSN1935-441X.
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