Sabriye Şeker

Sabriye Şeker, who started her education at the workshop established by Prof. Dr. Süheyl Ünver in 1987, continued her education at Topkapı Palace and Sema Nakışhane. She also took miniature, pattern and painting classes during her training. After successfully completing her education, Mrs. Şeker started her teacher career by giving illuminated manuscript courses in BASAD. Later, the artist who founded the Şeker art house trained today's teachers of traditional arts.

Sabriye Şeker, who was the owner of the first works of art from different perspectives, stylized the embroidery of shoes, and organized miniature exhibitions with carpet motifs and the illuminated manuscript (ornamentation) and miniatures of ballet and women figures who drew attention to breast cancer. In miniature, calligraphy and illuminated manuscript, which combine psychiatry and traditional arts together, at Bakırköy mental and neurological diseases hospital, she  signed the first works of Psychiatry from the Ottoman times and intellectual project and the Association of autism and art projects and the first works of art combining life with Art. In 2009, Bakırköy Chamber of Architects published miniatures of all historical works as a book from Makri Hori to Bakırköy, from Ayestefonos to Yeşilköy with miniature and photographs.

The artist exhibited in cities such as Adana, Urfa, Izmir, Antalya, Bursa and Tekirdağ in the country and organized the following themed exhibitions in Istanbul for the benefit of women, children and Disabled People.

·         Child Mothers

·         Illuminated manuscript and miniature in the light of tradition

·         We Decorate the Future with Tradition

·         Women Are the Wings of Humanity

·         Secret

·         Traces of the Past in Our Future

She represented our country successfully abroad at Hong-Kong, Malta, Italy, USA, Greece, Kosovo, France and TRNC.

The teacher, who participated in the contests related to traditional arts as a member of the jury and participated in TRT's documentary of living human treasures, was awarded with two honorable mentions and a third prize. Her work of the Illuminated manuscript and miniature works took place in a number of publications and in various calendars. In the context of the Çekmeköy Classic Art Project in 2017, she gave seminars on miniature art in the Ottoman Empire and teaches at İKSM and Şeker Art Gallery.