ARTIST BIO'S AND DESCRIPTIONS
ARTIST BIO'S AND DESCRIPTIONS
Aisha Mohamed
Aisha Sanusi Mohammed is a wife, mother of three including to a child with special needs and a published children’s author. She has co-authored two books with one of her sisters, she teaches Djembe with the Pearls of Islam drumming school using and she also teaches the Quran. A serial entrepreneur, who craves new experiences, the latest of these being sewing. She has been lovingly guided back to writing by her mentor Veronica Lancaster during the Creative women’s Hub mentoring programme and it has unlocked a whole new level of HER. Aisha can be found at @bintsanusi on Instagram.
Me.
Measurement: 80 cm x 140 cm / Acetate / Wood
This work captures a sense of what goes on in the writer’s mind, and represents conversations never had but always linger in the mind. This work explores the power of self-talk and the process of healing. Ultimately, it is a reminder and reassurance that we are so much more.
Poet/Writer
Anna Lerner
Anna Lerner is a London-based photographic artist. Playful and inquisitive in approach, she is drawn to natural light, transient moments, overlooked details, the unexpected, the surreal, and the abstract. Working intuitively to capture the mood of a location or subject, her practice is led by appreciation of the present and art of the everyday.
Trees for the Wood.
The series ‘Trees for the Wood’ (2020-23) is an expression and celebration of the creative spirit’s ability to see beyond barriers and find new perspectives. It explores the interplay between natural and human design. First, I saw the wood (used to board up the window) then I saw the tree (reflected in the glass) then I saw the two perfectly connected.
Photographer
Arwa Almisawi & Luisa Pires:
Arwa Almisawi is an emerging multidisciplinary artist based in London. Her creative vision is drawn from various forms of inspiration, ranging from her Welsh-Libyan heritage to the natural world. Arwa’s approach to artmaking is truly multi-disciplinary, and process- oriented which allows her to maintain a sense of spontaneity and fluidity in her work. and emerges from challenging herself to explore different techniques and materials to express my ideas. Her practice remains socially and environmentally informed and marries a diverse range of influences and experiences.
Palm Ore, 2023.
Cellulose Sheets - cellulose sheets sourced from students at the AADRL, Aluminium, Paper, Gold leaf
Palm Ore mirrors that state of all the places I call home (and the world, really). Every piece, shadow, wire, and crack symbolises the harshness, division, and destruction that arise from neglect and conflict. Yet, in the cracks, you get a glimpse of what once was and a glimmer of hope of what could become - opportunity, resources, infrastructure, change.
Multidisciplinary Artist
Khaoula Bouharrat:
Khaoula Bouharrat is a 24-year-old writer, podcaster and creative from North-West London. Centring her work around the stories of Muslim women and her community. Khaoula has worked within youth culture, sports, and marketing.
Series Title: A Postcard from Home. 2022-23
Multidisciplinary artist
Maryam Ali:
Maryam Ali is a Part 1 Architecture Graduate at London South Bank University. An East Londoner, by way of East Africa, Maryam’s unique artistic perspective and style are informed by her heritage and is influenced by the freeform style of Frank Gehry. Maryam infuses her architectural projects with her artistic vision to allow the work to speak for itself. With a strong emphasis on collaboration, her creativity extends beyond her own projects where she also utilises her experience in creative coordinating.
‘Voiced Echoes’, 2023.
Incorporating prayer in Islam into her work to represent its echoic voice, Maryam sees prayer as a spiritual connection between the believer and their Lord that teaches patience, calmness, and serves as a form of therapy. Throughout her design process, she reflected on the imperfections of prayer and represented these as echoes in her final form, highlighting the accepted imperfections of the prayer cycle.
Architect
Maryam Miah:
Maryam Miah is a figurative artist whose practice is grounded in culture, spirituality and mythology. Primarily working with the medium of oil paint, she explores themes of power and strength within femininity as well as the transcendental. As well as grappling with her place and right to her heritage within the diaspora.
A synergy of the classical and the modern is evident within her work, with immense detail battling with loose fluid brushstrokes on each canvas. Inspired by the likes of Paula Rego, Salman Toor and Artemisa Gentilleschi. Whilst also drawing from her appreciation of classical mythology, she attempts to immerse you in a fictitious cultural landscape in each painting.
Untitled i
Untitled i is inspired by the painting “Judith beheading Holofernes”, created by the great feminist master Artemisia Gentilleschi. Recalling the myth where Judith dresses in her best clothes to feign an alliance with the enemy. After deceiving him she murders him and saves her community from the invaders. The conquest in this myth and the powerful narrative that artemisa was telling, align with my message that criticizes the art field as a space dominated predominantly by white men. I too did not shy away from the violence and gore depicted in the initial image as this painting is displayed alongside Holofernes’ beheading
Artist
Artist
Born and raised in London, Noor studied at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, and gained a Bachelors in Architecture. Since graduation she has been studying ceramics after being introduced to the artistic medium during university. Through her work, Noor explores concepts that centre around the overwhelming emotions that come with existence. Predominantly working in porcelain, her work expresses feelings of loneliness, fear of change, nostalgia, and sentimentality for years past.
Starting as an exploration into the inexplicable nature of religion, ‘Blessing’ is a piece that expresses the fragility of one’s relationship with faith. Drawing from wall hung items in private domestic space, this concept focussed on home explores prayer and religious devotion. The piece explores this boundary between the personal act of prayer and the eternal silence on the other side, acting as a window between the two. The delicacy of the bone white porcelain mirrors the fragility of this connection, and the piece is embellished by abstracted motifs found in religious iconography.
Wall Hung Piece:
Blessing
2023
30x20x1.5 cm
Glazed Porcelain
Plinth 1:
Blessing ii
2023
30x30x2 cm
Glazed Porcelain, Cobalt
Plinth 2:
Fragile Fallen Fruit ii
2022
24x17x4 cm
Glazed Porcelain
Noor Alsalemi
Sarah Ezzedine
Sarah Ezzedine an artist at heart and a future lawyer, creates captivating works with acrylic paint. Through layering and bold textures, she invites viewers to delve into the depths of their own interpretations and stories. Abstract art allows Sarah to communicate emotions and feelings that may not always be easily articulated yet remain an integral part of the human experience. Her work reminds us that sometimes, the most meaningful experiences and expressions don't always make logical sense but resonate on a deeper level.
Untitled i - 29.7 x 42 cm
FCC Floral Arts
Fitzrovia community centre’s ‘coffee with art’ is a relaxed space for women from the local community which includes mum from the local primary school to come together once a week to connect over a coffee and some water colour floral arts.
It provides vital weekly 'me time' - an opportunity to start the week with an hour of calm & mindfulness through painting. The group has become its own community, where women connect and grow together over shared experience.
The sessions are funded by the Westminster Community Contributions fund.
To celebrate ‘International Women’s Day’ each woman painted what being a woman means to them using watercolour florals. The session is hosted by Easmin who also is a local mum and a self taught artist.
Community collective