 In 1986, he was the Chairman of the Iraqi Association of Plastic Arts.Fatah executed a number of murals and sculptures for public display in Baghdad.Many of these pay homage to notable Iraqi poets, both current and historical; including bronze statues of Maaruf al-Risafi, an Iraqi nationalist poet active in the 1940s; the Abbasid poet Abu Nuwas and the Abbasid painter al-Wasiti.