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My creative practice moves between the studio, the community, and the exhibition space — each informing the other. I work across mixed media, installation, and participatory forms, exploring themes of migration, memory, care, and the body as an archive of lived experience.

 

Over the past twenty-five years, I have exhibited hyper-locally within neighbourhood and community settings, as well as nationally and internationally in galleries, hospitals, and academic contexts. Each exhibition becomes a site of encounter — a space where personal narratives and collective histories meet, where viewers are invited to pause, reflect, and feel.

 

I am particularly drawn to materials that carry a sense of intimacy and resilience — textiles, found objects, gestures, and fragments that hold traces of human presence. My process often begins with listening: to stories, to silence, to what is felt but not yet visible.

 

Through both solo and collaborative projects, I continue to explore how art can hold tenderness and tension in equal measure — creating spaces of beauty, empathy, and transformation. My exhibitions are less about display and more about dialogue: living invitations to witness, to connect, and to imagine new ways of being together.

Exhibitions

2026, Solo Exhibition, 'Deliciously Hybrid or Two-Tier Belonging', East Street Arts

2024, Exhibition, Mapping Our Better Life, Leeds Playhouse

2024, Exhibition, Our Stories, Our Lives - Migration Stories, Treasures Gallery, British Library, London

2023, Exhibition, Creative Roots, Leeds City Museum

2022, Exhibition, Walk a Mile in My Shoes, The Summer Of Love, Yorkshire Sculpture Park

2022, Exhibition, Stories in a Suitcase, Yorkshire Sculpture International 

2022, Exhibition, Saris & Streetsigns, LEEDS 2023

2022, Advisory Panel for exhibition, Shifting Perspectives and Conversation Table, Leeds Art Gallery

2022, Artist in Residence, Racial Equality and Migrants Summit, Runnemede Trust

2022, International Commission, Artists Make Space, British Council and Tara Theatre, London

2021, Participatory Exhibition, Concert for Bangladesh, Yorkshire Sculpture Park

2021, PANIC Bursary recipient, The Colour Palette , Yorkshire Contemporary

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