Dr. Mariam Ketait

Dr. Mariam Ketait started her exploration of the human body as a family medicine practitioner, through that platform she learned about the human body, emotions, and the inter connectedness of mind and body and the impact our psyche has on our health conditions. She then started introducing different methods of cultivating health by giving patients gratitude prescriptions and designing wellbeing strategies based on their needs to facilitate balance and ease back into their lives. From there, she discovered the power of colours and shapes and space in creating and environment of healing, and that there are many ways to achieve wellbeing intrinsically and in the ecosystem. Her first “art” project was to curate an art space in the clinic she worked in so that it can uplift patients and make the space more emotionally safe and beautiful. In her own process, colour and painting was a big part of her self discovery too – as she delved into the inner child work, the masculine and feminine balance, and the ability to voice out your truth and shine it through as a woman.

She dabbed into interactive design as she created public art to represent values that she felt would bring more wellbeing to the world, values such as: optimism, listening, sustainability and presence. She continues to explore the inter connectedness between art, the mind body and spirit and works with medical conditions through visualizing the entanglements in the psych and the family systems to help bring ease through recreating the flow by introducing beauty, love, colour and light. Her artwork aims to bring wellbeing in the world and to inspire others to take the lead and change their lives through meditation, healthier choices and authentic growth.

In this exhibition – we have a series of the Womb art created to honor the journey of women through conception, pregnancy and birth and to remind women of the power they have within them to birth the life experience that they desire with the many tools they already have.

“As a woman, I feel blessed to have the ability to see beauty in myself and my sisters, and to birth it into this existence and co create”

She has dedicated 2020 to work with women and created Chikara: Chikara may refer to: 力, (Chikara), the Japanese word meaning power, capability, or influence. The Four-horned Antelope, Tetraceros quadricornis. Chikara (given name) Chikara (instrument), a stringed instrument from India القيثاره
This is a movement to empower young girls as they step into their leadership roles in life as sisters, mothers, daughters and influencers of change. she has worked with women in all walks of life: front line workers, volunteers, refugees, trafficked women, people of determination, women who lost their jobs due to COVID and many who are choosing to step out of victimhood and into choice.

“Every woman is a leader, and can create the life she desires – I am here to remind women of what is already within them”
Having witnessed the transformation in the UAE and being part of the growth as an Emirati Woman first working in the medical field, becoming a private pilot and later on in the corporate world, she derives her inspiration from the leadership in the UAE, the strong women who came before her in her family and lineage, and the powerful force of womanhood found in HH Sheikha Fatma Bint Mubarak who is leading the change in the world. Mariam hopes to see gender balance on the forefront of every nation as a predeterminate to a sustainable life on earth and believes that the future is Female.