Sara Abdu was born of Yemeni parents in 1993 in Jeddah where she currently lives. She studied graphic design and digital art at the Future Institute of Higher Education Training in Jiddah, and English language and literature at the Arab Open University. Abdu’s illustrative practice of anthropomorphized melancholic figures held a preoccupation with the way human beings negotiate inner territories; often exploring themes of the self, memory, home, mortality and immortality, with cursory gestures to the conscious and unconscious mind.