Gallery
Echo-Dyed Paper
Watercolour and Ink. 71cm x 87 cm. Winner of the Contemporary Art category in the Fairfield Art Prize. I am 1 in 7.9 Billion people in the world and I have a unique story that belongs only to me.
This piece explores one's identity and all its glory! The good, the bad and the ugly! It’s my unique fingerprint and my grandmother’s life story in Farsi.
Her story.
5 Limited Edition Prints. Screen Print. Representation of my grandmother and all my ancestors who endured so much hardship in Iran after the 1979 Iranian Revolution So many were executed, imprisoned and toured for just wanting nothing but freedom.
Beauty through Trauma.
Echo Dyed Paper, watercolour, ink and stitching. 96m x 75cm. Trauma is crippling to anyone, the sheer loneliness of having secrets or facing trauma on your own is exhausting. Art releases that pain, that loneliness and starts a person on a path of healing without even realising it. The rawness of this piece is an example of how a person can feel when having to heal from trauma on their own. The Persian text Azade (freedom) represents all those who wish for freedom and those who are trying to be free.
Yellow Brick Road
Colligraph and mix medium. A life's journey of resilience, passion and persistence. This piece is all about my journey of identity and what it means to be an Iranian refugee in Australia, where does a person belong, is it here or there?
Free our people.
15 Limited Edition Print. Etching and aquatint. This piece was created during my residency at Cicada Press the University of NSW Paddington. This piece represents all the women, men and children imprisoned and executed unjustly.
It’s Complicated
Watercolour on Stonehedge paper. A woman's perspective of pain when hearing the words ‘pregnancy just isn’t possible’. Going through the idea of IVF or miscarriage can add a sense of emptiness to a woman's heart, a certain pain that exacerbates every time you hear someone else fall pregnant, knowing that it may not be a life for you. This was a calming technique I used to filter my emotions when I heard those words, and interesting that the pattern turned out to be little pregnant bellies and a baby forming in a womb. My miracle child was born years later.
Azade (Freedom in Farsi).
Echo- Dyed, watercolour, ink and Stitching. 90cm x 67cm. Finalist of Blacktown Art Prize. This piece represents the moment we were free from the hands of the Iranian Government. The roughness created on the paper represents the rough terrain that my grandmother endured and the repeated word Azade in Persian Calligraphy is the symbol of hope. It all comes together as a narrative of my journey. Freedom was something we yearned for and this piece allows me to showcase exactly that.