Artists

Was born in Sudan 1939, he was known among his friends & the art community by two names,(Omer Khairy) given to him by his family, (George Edward) was chosen by the artist, may be it was a way for him to deify his reality!

He attended the College of Fine and Applied Art, Khartoum from 1957-1959, then he left hoping to travel to Italy where he was awarded a scholarship to study Fine Art at the Academe of Fine Art in Roam, he was extremely disappointed when he knew that the scholarship was given by the Art School management & dean office, at that time, to one of the teaching assistants at the college! He abandoned the Art School but never abandoned his art.Khairy/Edward throughout his life used black ink on untreated wood panels in most of his artwork beside oil colors and any media he could find; he exhibited his work in more than 50 exhibitions in the Sudan and abroad.

A great deal of Omer Khairy/George Edward work is in private collections around the world & in public collections as well, some of his work is at the College of Fine and Applied Art, Khartoum, Sudan; British Council, Khartoum, Sudan; French Cultural Center, Khartoum, Sudan; Goethe Institute, Khartoum, Sudan; Shibrain Art Center, Khartoum;

He had numerous murals surrounded the walls of the old building of the National Council of Arts & Letters in Khartoum, but was destroyed by one of the NIF ministers in the early 90s.
Khairy/Edward died in April 12th 1999 after a battle with cancer.