Visual Artist & Community Art Practitioner
Education
2021-2022 Master Adult Education, Community Development & Youth Work, University of Glasgow, Glasgow.
2018-2021 BA(HONS) Sculpture& Environmental Art, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow.
2004-2006 HND Textile Design, Glasgow Clyde College, Glasgow.
2004-2006 Diploma of Graphic Design, Informaticians College, Tehran, Iran.
2000-2003 BA(HONS) Textiles Design, University of Science & Culture, Iran.
Exhibitions
2023
'Through the Looking Glass', Govanhill International Festival 2023, Govanhill Baths Culture Collective, Glasgow, Scotland.
'Measuring the Distance', Uprooted Visions, Edinburgh Print Maker, Edinburgh, Scotland.
2022
'Amber', Scottish Refugee Council, Edinburgh Festival, Festival Theatre, Edinburgh, Scotland.
'Alter', Counterpoints Art & Southbank Centre, Southbank Centre, London, England.
2021
'Feel Field', Shared Studio, Being Human Festival, Dear Green Bothy, University of Glasgow, COP26, The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Glasgow, Scotland.
'I am From Here, there', Awarded by Society Scottish Artist, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, Scotland.
'Still', Edinburgh Palette, Edinburgh, Scotland.
'Amber', Scottish Refugee Council, Glasgow, Scotland.
'The Redistribution of Memory'; Collaboration with Glasgow School of Arts, The Briggait, Glasgow, Scotland.
'Colouring Outside the Lines'; UNESCO Chair Refugee Integration Through Languages and The Arts (RILA). Digital.
'I am From Here, There'; Hidden Gardens Glasgow, collaboration with Distanced Assemblage, Glasgow, Scotland.
2020
'In -Between'; Studio Pavilion (House of Art Lover), Glasgow.
'Fluid Territories - A nomadic on-line dialogue'; Creative Centre for Fluid Territories (CCFT) Buffer Fringe
Project, Collaboration with Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow. Digital.
2019
'3 31/3: part of Mewantemooseicd'; Collaboration with Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland.
'Get Liminal'; The Old Police Station, Collaboration with Glasgow School of Art, Deptford, London, England.
'Under the town’s skin'; Glasgow Green, Glasgow, Scotland.
2018
'Foggy windows'; Collaboration with Glasgow School of Arts, Old Hairdressers, Glasgow, Scotland.
2017
'Mass Movement'; Paisley Art Centre, Paisley, Scotland.
'The route we thread'; Many Studios, Glasgow, Scotland.
'Unearthed'; Solas Festival, Perth, Scotland.
Iranian Ancient
2016 Paisley Museum, Glasgow.
2016 Burrell Collection, Glasgow.
2015 Maryhill Burgh Hall, Glasgow.
2015 Arches, Glasgow.
Residencies
2022-2023
Govanhill Baths Culture Collective.
Mutual Affinities, Counterpoints Arts and Creative Scotland.
2022
In from the Margins projects, Edinburgh Printmakers, Creative Europe commission.
2021
Feel Field, Being Human Festival, Dear Green Bothy.
Still, Edinburgh Pallet, Edinburgh.
UNIDEE, Cittadellarte/ Biella, Italy.
2019
Civic House, Test Unit, Summer school, Glasgow.
Centre of Contemporary Art (CCA), Glasgow.
2017
Many Studios, The Gallowgate Glasgow, Collaboratory art residency.
Commissions
2022
Edinburgh Print Maker, Creative Europe program.
Edinburgh International Festival Refuge program.
2021
Southbank Centre and Counterpoint art, London.
Refugee Convention 70th anniversary by the Scottish Refugee Council.
2018
Procession, 100 years of woman’s vote, Scottish Refugee Council and Glasgow Women’s Library.
2017
Paisley 2021 City of Culture. Installation and facilitating art and cultural project.
Many Studios, collaboration participatory art project.
Interviews / Publications
March 2023
The Scotsman
Interview here
March 2022
Craft Scotland
Interview here
May 2021
The National
June 2021
Glasgow Times
Interview here
February 2019
Glasgow Women's Library
June 2019
Glasgow Centre of Contemporary Art. Artists Symposium, Artists in Conversation at CCA
Interview here
2019
The Journal of Unconditional Being, CCA, Glasgow, UK
Interview here
Community Arts, Audience Engagement and Projects
April 2022- August 2023 - Remembering The Future
Govanhill Baths Culture Collective ‘Occupy’.
Jun 2022- March 2023 – CWIN/GSA
Children’s Holiday Programme.
13th October - 4th February 2023 - Gathering Stitch
The Survivor Arts Community, Wild and Kind Studios, and the Glasgow Women’s Library.
April 2022 - Rediscovering the Antonine Wall in Falkirk
West Dunbartonshire Council and Historic Environment Scotland in collaboration with Language Café.
March 2022 - Central West Integration Network
Woman’s group.
March 2022 - December 2023 May - Dundee Contemporary Arts (DCA)
Dundee International Women’s Centre’s (DIWC), Flourish Group in collaboration with Scrap Antics.
September- November 2021 - Amal Project (COP26)
National Theatre of Scotland/ Citizen Theatre. This project involves six school across Glasgow and Perth Includes St Josephs, St Teresa's, St Alberts, Blackfriars, Comrie, Grandtully.
March – October 2022 - Alternative Tracks
Edinburgh Printmakers, The Welcoming & North Edinburgh Arts. Works with Afghan women's group, Apex group and Piers' hotel group, Edinburgh College (Granton).
September 2021 - Festival of Social Sciences
University of Glasgow
August 2020 – December 2021 - Memories of Elsewhere
Glasgow Museum Research Centre.
May 2021 - 2022 - Dialogues of Light, May 2021 (virtual) and Our Shared Values, May 2021
The Art of Integration - University of Glasgow UNESCO RILA Spring School
Feb 2021 – Present - Maryhill Integration Network (MIN)
Maryhill Integration Network (MIN) and Glasgow Connected Arts Network (GCAN) and Centre of Contemporary Art (CCA).
2021May – July (virtual) - A Moments Peace (AMP)
In partnership with Küche to deliver ‘Shared Space’.
2020- 2021 (virtual)
Glasgow women’s library and Distanced Assemblage.
April 2020 – May 2020(virtual) - Real & Fake Quaichs
Al-Meezan woman’s group in collaboration with Glasgow Museum resource centre and Distance Assemblage.
2018- 2019
Thornwood / Knights wood primary school and Food fruition.
2018- 2019
Al-Meezan woman’s group in collaboration with Glasgow Women’s Library.
2018-2019 - Procession
Scottish Refugee council and Glasgow Women’s Library.
2017-2018 - Her Spirit Soared
Glasgow Women’s Library and Castlemilk community Centre, performance at Tramway and Kelvingrove Museum.
2017-2018 - Renfrewshire Festival
2016-2017 - Lest We Forgot
Refugee festival, Scottish Refugee council.
2015-2017
Kelvingrove art museum, Crookston primary school and Barmulloch Centre Southside, Pollokshield primary school, in collaboration with Glasgow city council and NHS on Gender equality programming and research through visual art.
2013-2014 - ‘A View from Here’
Scottish Refugee festival, Commonwealth Games, Scottish Refugee council, Thornwood primary school.
2013-2018
Maryhill Integration Network and Woodland Community Centre.
2013- 2016
Working with Central West Integration Network (African community).