ABOUT ME

HIBA SAMUEL SHEHADEH

GLASS ARTIST + ILLUSTRATOR

BASED IN JERUSALEM

My name is Hiba, and I am an artist of memory, emotion, and soul who brings emotions to life through storytelling, through sculpture, glass, and digital creation, I give form to what is often left unspoken the quiet ache of loss, the warmth of love, the fragile search for self. My work is not just art; it is a diary written in light and shadow, in silence and color.

Since childhood, I have found comfort in creating characters, small echoes of my inner world when words failed me. Every figure, every story I sculpt, carries pieces of me, the grief I carry, and the questions that I still ask.

Glass, in particular, speaks my language, delicate yet sharp, transparent yet unyielding. It holds the contradictions I live with: the way memory cuts and heals, the way something broken can still catch the light.

I love combining glass with other materials like recycled plastic, fabric, and ceramic (porcelain). Allowing each to speak in its own voice while forming something entirely new. This process mirrors my own: fragile, layered, and always transforming. Using discarded or overlooked materials gives them new meaning and life, just as I try to do with memory and emotion.

My current work, The Dollmaker’s Heart, is my graduation project at Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design. It is a deeply personal story one that traces the scars of family, the weight of absence, and the longing to feel whole again. Through it, I invite others into a world of imperfection, a place where pain and beauty hold hands.

For me, art is not escape, it is transformation.
A way to turn wounds into wonder, loneliness into story, and sorrow into something that glows.