Nazanin Ghahramani

Nazanin Ghahramani

Rooms, Roles and Resistance A bed’s edge becomes a route into imagined lives; a bedroom mirror becomes a place to rehearse another identity; a bathroom becomes a site where the body is brought into line with expectations of femininity. In Nazanin Ghahramani’s...
Ahmad Dastband

Ahmad Dastband

The Land, in Its Absence – Written by Lisa Gray. Ahmad Dastband began painting in 2018, developing his practice through sustained experimentation with movement, texture and colour. His work moves between abstraction and landscape, often allowing a place to...
Elham Mohammadi Nezhad

Elham Mohammadi Nezhad

The Body as a Place of Becoming – Written by Lisa Gray. In Elham Mohammadi Nezhad’s paintings, the body is rarely a complete, self-contained form. It is divided by colour, crossed by lines, joined to roots or set against structures that appear to press upon it....
Elaheh Abbas Zadeh

Elaheh Abbas Zadeh

What the Landscape Leaves Behind – Written by Lisa Gray. A landscape can remain with us long after its details have become uncertain. We may forget its boundaries yet remember the pressure of its colours, the movement of light or the sensation of being there....
June Hou – Critical Review

June Hou – Critical Review

Listening as an Artistic Practice – Written by Lisa Gray. June Hou’s work begins with a question that is easy to ask and difficult to answer: what does it take for someone’s story to be heard on their own terms? Across documentary film, community projects and...
Tess Powell – Critical Review

Tess Powell – Critical Review

The Uneasy Architecture of Home – Written by Lisa Gray Tess Powell’s paintings occupy the unstable territory between home as a physical place and home as an emotional condition. Domestic rooms, familiar possessions, beds, tables and houses recur throughout her...