Bio
I'm an artist working in drawing, painting embroidery and digital art, working withplay and reflect together on mediations between participants-
visitor - artist -institute, through inviting spontaneous organic play with forms, words, and lines.
Working with organic forms and creatures budding in fabric and on paper imbued with delicate embroidery to explore femininity and feminisms.
My research practice delves into archives and botany, herbariums, natural history and the use of the arts as therapeutic tools in discovering one’s relationship with the self and others. Working with notions of women, nature, and storytelling and the fictional autobiographical aspect of these creatures. These drawings become a medley of morphing creatures, chimaera, an amalgamation of biologists’ drawings and observations and art forms in nature embedded with what may be known as women’s work, like embroidery or fine line drawings and flowing watercolours. I have explored turning these 2D drawings into wearable dresses and garments and hope to explore this area further working with digital tools and traditional printing methods like silkscreen and linocut printing.
I am a co-founder of Basbous.inc shop with Tala Abdulhadi.
I received my BA and MA in Fine Art from Central Saint Martins and a postgraduate diploma in the arts in therapy and education.
Workshops given
2023
Exhibition Tours for Children / Darat al Funun
2022
-Nahnou Together on Re-rooting / Darat al Funun
-Basbous Visual Storytelling Workshop (3 days) / MMAG
-Volunteered with Akwan Gardening Club at Jadal - Spring term
2021
-Art club with Asha Athman under Akwan
2019
-Nahnou Together on Line / Darat al Funun
- Basbous Printmaking workshop / Amman Design Week
- Basbous Dear Diary workshop / Daftar Asfar during Amman Design Week
Education
2021 - 2023 MA Education - Liverpool John Moores University
2014 - 2015 PGCert in Therapeutic Arts - Institute of the Arts in Therapy & Education
2013 - 2015 MA Fine Art - Central Saint Martins
2010 - 2013 BA Fine Art - Central Saint Martins
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Selected Exhibitions
2022
- MMAG Open Studios
2021
- Spilled Milk
- Bila Hudoud / Aman Art Space
2020
- Amman - Beirut / MMAG
2019
- Basbous shop / Crafts District at Amman Design Week
2018
- On Art Archives in Jordan / Jordan National Gallery of Fine Art
- Inaugural 30th Anniversary Exhibition / Darat al Funun
2017
- Hangar Exhibition / Amman Design Week
2016
- 100 Days of Art / Spring Sessions
- Linear Transcendences / The Lab - Darat al Funun
- Immerse at The Beach Award I IEA 4, Dubai
2015
- Granfaloon I Degree Show / Central Saint Martins, London
-MA Practice Event / Central Saint Martins, London
2014
Tomorrow Today / OXO Tower, London
2013
BA Fine Art Degree Show / Central Saint Martins, London