I am a cross-discipline British/Egyptian artist. Born in Egypt to a British mother and Egyptian father. I grew up in Cairo, lived and travelled extensity around North Africa and Europe from an early age and currently living in the UK. My art practice draws on my cross-cultural heritage, social-political experiences, identity, memory, migration, displacement and belonging. My Egyptian, Islamic cultural heritage is juxtaposed against my western liberal thought and ideas. 

Through art, I deal with these ideas in different ways, mixed media, sculptural installations, and cross-discipline collaborative work, which allow me to investigate these themes, communicating and engaging with wider audiences, instigating conversations, and exploring differences and similarities. 

I use found, repurposed, recycled objects, and  plastic waste in my work, responding intuitively to these materials as well as these charged themes of identity and place, abstracting my feelings and thoughts into my work, investigating cultural, social, and environmental issues. 

Biography:

Since 2015, I have been focusing on my visual arts practice. I am a member of Sevenoaks Visual Arts Forum (SVAF), exhibited at the Kaleidoscope Gallery in Sevenoaks, No Format Gallery in Deptford as well as other exhibitions and events in the South East. I am currently studying for an MFA at London Metropolitan University. 

As a member of Jessops Farm Studios and gallery, Kent, an artist led space, I have been collaborating on community let projects. For Southeast Communities Rail Partnership at Penshurst Station, I was involved with transforming the station shelter into a public art gallery space. As well as an exhibiting artist, I also project managed the planning and production process.

I am currently on the steering committee for Art in June 2023 Open Studios. 

During lockdown, she has worked with SVAF, curating two online exhibitions ‘More Than’  and 'More More Than'.

I also responded to lockdown by creating an unconventional gallery 'The Open Dresser Gallery'  curating and showcasing artists' work in a unique and unconventional way and outside the confined spaces of traditional galleries. 

Recent Exhibitions:

· ROOTED, Sussex Prairie Garden, Sussex, group show 2022

· Art in June, Kent, The Barn at Falconhurst, group show 2022

· STUFF, The Junk Punk Bunch pop-up show, Holborn, London, 2022

· FINISHED, Kaleidoscope Art Gallery, Sevenoaks, group show 2022

· The SVAF Open, Kaleidoscope Art Gallery, Sevenoaks, group show 2021

· Celebrate Cuckmere Haven, East Sussex, group show, 2021

· Void 2020, Horsebridge Arts Center, Whitstable, window commission and group show, 2021

· Child's Play Sculpture Park, Jesspos Farm Studios, solo show, 2021

· SVAF, More Than and More More Than, Sevenoaks, online group shows, 2020, 2021

· WSP32, Winter Sculpture Park, London, group show, 2020

· Art of Isolation Gallery, London, group show, 2020, 2021, 2022

· Penshurst Platform Gallery, Penshurst, Kent, 2019 - current

· Art in June, Kent, Open Studios, 2019

· Second Floor Studios, Sevenoaks group show, 2018