SHIDRAHSTUDIO
An atelier for sculpted spacesBased in Israel · Working internationally
Hameara: sculpted bar, timber counter and woven pendant lights
01 / HamearaDiscover the project ↗

From intention to material

Matter. Meaning.
The human hand.

The edge of a backlit circular wall feature

Restaurant interiors, sculpted concrete and heritage spaces. Shidrah Studio, led by artist Avi Tal. Based in Israel, working internationally.

A selection of our work

The Shidrah approach

Think in spaces.
Feel through materials.
Leave something human.

Art, material and making.
One continuous creative process.

Commission the studio

Work that begins with your space.

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Selected work · Hameara

A space shaped by hand.

Restaurant · Negev, Israel

Sculpted walls, timber and integrated light form a continuous language. The dining room gives way to closer observations: a relief, an illuminated edge, the meeting of materials.

The dining room, with illuminated circular features above the seating.
The dining room, with illuminated circular features above the seating.
Relief and texture, seen at close range.
Relief and texture, seen at close range.
Backlit shelving framed by the sculpted wall.
Backlit shelving framed by the sculpted wall.
Two more studies in material +
Light tracing the textured wall.
Light tracing the textured wall.
Illuminated niches within the sculpted surface.
Illuminated niches within the sculpted surface.
Hameara · A closer look

Making room for light.

Light reveals the depth of the surfaces and the contours of the niches. The smallest details carry the language of the whole room.

Glassware suspended inside an illuminated inset.
Glassware suspended inside an illuminated inset.
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Selected Work · Institutional

The Cathedra for Ethiopian Jewry

Ono Academic College · Sculpted interior & heritage content · Nearing completion

A permanent home for the International Cathedra for the Study of Ethiopian Jewry at Ono Academic College. Sculpted surfaces, illuminated niches, artefact vitrines and archival content form one continuous space.

Wide view of the International Cathedra for the Study of Ethiopian Jewry at Ono Academic College, sculpted documentation wall and artefact vitrine, built by Shidrah Studio
Explore details & additional views +
Glass vitrine of Ethiopian Jewish artefacts set against the sculpted green documentation wall
Panels on the Kingdom of Kush and Aksum beneath sculpted foliage
The Ancient Roots panel framed by hanging greenery
The Beta Israel panel seen through foliage in the cathedra hall
A sculpted lit niche carved into the dark wall of the cathedra
Scroll-form panel with a traditional broom and archival photographs
Ethiopian pottery in a glass case against the painted green landscape
Traditional Ethiopian string instruments mounted on a hand-finished ochre wall
Documentation panels on the hand-finished ochre wall of the cathedra

Sculpted plaster, painted landscape, and archival content, worked into one room.

The Hand Behind the Studio

Shidrah is led by Avi Tal.

Known in the art world as Spine B7, he has spent nearly two decades where fine art, architecture, and raw material meet. The street taught him scale. A decade at the Aviation Club of Israel and a Technion program in aerodynamics and structural integrity taught him how to make it stand.

That is why a Shidrah space is not decorated. It is built as a single work of art the size of a building: sculpted, structural, and made to last. He knows what a surface does over twenty years of weather.

Every line is drawn directly on the wall. No projectors, no stock imagery, no scaled prints, no vinyl.

He set the Guinness World Record for the largest spray-painted mural by a single artist: 2,038 m².

Museum-quality bronze sculpted faces from a Shidrah Studio Ethiopian Jewish heritage room
Selected Work · Murals at Architectural Scale

The World-Record Mural

Guinness World Record · 2,038 m² · Spray-painted by a single artist

Before the studio built rooms, it painted at the scale of buildings. Avi Tal holds the Guinness World Record for the largest spray-painted mural by a single artist: 2,038 square metres by one hand. Large-scale murals and painted facades remain part of the studio's practice, in Israel and internationally.

Guinness World Records certificate awarded to Avi Tal for the largest spray paint mural by one artist, 2,038.96 m², Dimona, Israel, 1 March 2016
Guinness World Records · 2,038.96 m² · Dimona, Israel · 1 March 2016
The Studio

One vision. The hands that build it.

A single artistic mind, executed by a dedicated team across Israel and the United States.

Avi Tal
Founder & Artist
Spine B7
Alex Katzenelson
Producer
Amram Aklum
Heritage Content Expert
Beta Israel
Sigalit Menashe
Sales Manager · Israel
Ralph Tal
Project Manager · USA
What the Studio Builds
Carved stone and bent wood in the sculpted Negev restaurant

Structural Interiors

Complete private and hospitality spaces, sculpted by hand at architectural scale.

Carved relief with copper Hebrew lettering from an Ethiopian Jewish heritage room

Heritage & Memorial Rooms

Museum-grade installations that hold memory, including the national Ethiopian Jewish heritage rooms.

By Request

If your space demands to be singular, tell us about it.

The studio takes on a limited number of projects each year. Write about the space and the vision. No spec sheet needed, a first conversation is enough.