Alla Budabbus is a pop artist, graphic designer and creative director of Bridge Media, a marketing and advertising agency based in Tripoli. He graduated in Finance and Marketing from the University of Tripoli.

Through his paintings, which are a mixture of Libyan proverbs, poetry and textile elements, Alla Budabbus hopes to restore Libya to its former glory, lost after the revolution in 2011.

Although he cannot pinpoint the precise moment he became an artist, Alla Budabbus thinks that the Libyan crisis helped him find the artist within himself. At the beginning of his engagement with art, he only posted his works on Facebook. Later, his friends suggested he shared his paintings with a larger audience: this prompted him to launch the AB.Art page.

Alla sees life as a big caricature and thus employs satire as a means to cope with unbearable subject matter. Despite this, he describes himself as apolitical and argues that through his paintings, he expresses his anger and frustration towards social and cultural issues, such as the abuse of women and children. Art also functions as a call for freedom, and thus stands for a whole cultural identity.

In 2018, he partook in London’s P21 Gallery, with artworks, installations, films and photos meant to represent individual stories of Libyan contemporary life and to highlight Libyan national identity. This, together with his pastiches of Western icons such as Marilyn Monroe, Prince and Adele, make him a pop-artist.