Omer Khairy

Omer Khairy (1939–1999; ; also known as George Edward Scuncucur) was a Sudanese artist and modern painter.

Life and career

Khairy was born in Omdurman, Sudan, in 1939. He was the last of seven children born to Abdallah Khairy and Fatima Al Hajj Mohamed, who lived in the Abasseya neighbourhood in Omdurman. He went to school at the Abbasiya Elementary School in 1947, where he was first introduced to art, learning to draw, etch, and produce works in clay. Inspired by his elder brother Abdul Aziz, who was an artist, he became interested in drawing, and focused particularly on portraits and animals, which he included in his animated scenes of the Sudanese city.

Having lost his father at a young age, Khairy was especially close to his mother. Other works by notable Sudanese artists in this show were drawings by Ibrahim El-Salahi and Kamala Ibrahim Ishag.

Works by Khairy have been collected by the Barjeel Art Foundation in the United Arab Emirates, the Sharjah Art Foundation, the Tigani Omar El Khatib Collection, the Khayat Private Collection, among others.