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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

26 Oct ’24 – 26 Jan 2025.   Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2024, The Salisbury Museum, UK

PREVIOUS EXHIBITIONS

2024

Jul – Sep ’24.   Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2023  Touring Exhibition, The Turnpike Gallery, Leigh, UK

Aug ’24.   Afterwalls: of the Panopticon and its Ruins, Millbank London

May – Jun ’24.   Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2023 Touring Exhibition, The Levinsky Gallery, University of Plymouth. 

Feb – Apr ’24.   Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2023 Touring Exhibition, TheGallery, Arts University Bournemouth

Mar ’24.   The Nomenclature of Colour III, The SLADE

2023

Dec ’23 – Jan ’24.   Islamic Arts Festival, 25th Ed., Sharjah Art Museum, UAE

The London Group Open, Copeland Gallery, London

CAS Members’ Exhibition,  BCS Moorgate, London

Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2023, London

 ELEMENTS 2023, Arch 182, Shepherds Bush Market, London

 Art in Focus,  St Mary’s Hospital, London

Colour & Poetry, SLADE, UCL

 Diaspora & Belonging, UAL Alumni, Mother London

Art in Focus,  Hammersmith Hospital, London

2022

What a Waste? The Koppel Project Hive, London

Art in Focus,  Charing Cross Hospital, London

Aesthetica Art Prize 2022, York Art Gallery, York

ELEMENTS 2022, Online

Journeys: The Healing Arts, Saatchi Gallery, London,

2021

– GATHER, W3 Gallery, London

Manifesting the Unseen: Southampton City Art Gallery

– River of Life: ELEMENTS 2021 x Kensington + Chelsea Festival, London

– Colour/Collage/Poetry, The SLADE, UCL, London

– A Place in Pattern, The William Morris Society, London

2020

– Interpretation of the Meaning,
Borough Road Archive Collection,  London

– Carpet Pages III: PIXELS, London, UK

– ELEMENTS 2020, London, UK

– Digital Light: Code Makers, Bletchley Park,  UK

2019

– Here and Beyond, [Solo Exhibition] Kensington Town Hall, London

2018

– Manifesting The Unseen, Guest Projects, London

– Digital Weekender, Watermans Art Centre, London

– WVWG Summer Show, London

– AYAH – Sign, Maxilla Space, London

– ART IN FLUX, The Ugly Duck, London

2017

– The London Group Open, Cello Factory, London

– The Botanical Legacy – Travellers in Ottoman Lands, Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh

2016

– Pigments of Life, The Templeman Gallery, Canterbury

– SEEING THE UNSEEN, Four Corners Gallery, London

– V&A Digital Futures, British Computer Society, London

– International Festival of Projections, Canterbury, UK

2015

– Islamic Arts Festival, 18th Edition, Sharjah Art Museum, UAE

EDUCATION

2018.   PhD Digital Arts, University of Kent

2010.   MA Visual Arts, University of the Arts London

2006.   BSc Multimedia Technology and Design, Brunel University

COMMISSIONS

2024.   Zaydaan – A Matter of Time. Installation for School of Calligraphy and Ornamentation, Fujairah, UAE

2023.   Portal. Site specific installation for 25th Edition, Islamic Arts Festival, Sharjah, UAE

2022 – 23.   White Dots. Public art murals commissioned for Shepherds Bush Market in collaboration with Kindred Studios, London

2022.   Anhaar, commission for Leighton House Museum, London

2021.   Cascade, commission for CW+ at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London

2021.   Siraat, Site-specific installation commissioned for Manifesting the Unseen at Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton. Supported by Arts Council England.

2020.   Interpretation of the Meaning, commission for Borough Road Collection Archive, London

2020.    Between the Stars commission for MKIAC at Bletchley Park

2015.   Ulterior Motifs commissioned for 18th Edition Islamic Arts Festival, Sharjah, UAE

AWARDS/RESIDENCIES

2024.   Shortlisted for Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize

2023.   Shortlisted for Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize – Working Drawing Award

2022.   Finalist, Aesthetica Art Prize

2022.   Longlisted for Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize

2021.   Arts Council England Project Grant Award

2018.   Guest Projects Residency with Manifesting the Unseen.

2018/19.   Churchill Fellowship Research Travel Award

2018.   Griffin Gallery/ColArt Project-based studio residency, London, UK, 2018

2017.   Finalist, Kent Creative Awards.