Artwork by Ahmad Mohammad Shibrain. Ahmad Mohammad Shibrain (1931-2017) was born in Berber, in the north of Sudan. He studied at the College of Fine and Applied Arts in Khartoum (previously the School of Design, Gordon Memorial College), and the Central School of Arts and Design in London. He was a prominent graphic designer in Sudan, part of the Arabic Hurufiyya movement and the leading figure of the Khartoum School movement to introduce Arabic calligraphy to painting. After his return to Sudan in 1960, he established a department for Graphic Design at the College of Fine and Applied Arts in Khartoum, and in 1975 he became the college dean. In 1996 he founded Shibrain Art Centre in Khartoum. Ahmad Mohammad Shibrain died in 2017.
