Female graffiti artists show their colors on Amman's walls
Suha Sultan is one of the few female graffiti artists in Jordan, but she is inspired to dismantle stereotypes and revitalize the city walls of Jordan's capital with colorful artwork.
AMMAN, Jordan — Suha Sultan was only 18 when she started her first graffiti artwork on the outside wall of her parent’s apartment in Amman. Her neighbors only had one condition: that she would create something beautiful with her spray paint and brushes.
The young artist, now 20, has since brightened up several of Amman's drab city walls coated with soot, sand and car exhaust.
“I’ve been drawing forever,” she told Al-Monitor. “But when I entered the School of Arts and Design at the University of Jordan, I decided I should try to go big and make sure that my artwork can be seen by the whole city.”
When she wanted to work with other female graffiti artists, she discovered that there were only a few. “So I set out to build a women graffiti network,” she explained. “You know how Jordan is, it is more of a patriarchal society.”
