My practice explores how materials carry stories. Working with found and inherited objects, recycled plastics, and craft and print techniques, I investigate the ways memory, migration, and belonging are woven into the material world. My work is shaped by my Egyptian-British heritage and the experience of moving between places, cultures, and histories — a dialogue between Islamic cultural traditions and Western liberal thought, between what is carried and what is left behind.
Recently, my practice has reclaimed traditionally gendered crafts — knitting, crochet, and embroidery — skills passed down through the women in my Egyptian family. These skills connect me to my Egyptian heritage while allowing me to explore my own identity in the space between cultures, repositioned within contemporary sculptural forms.
I often create work in transit, developing a methodology of portable sculpture that mirrors the lived experience of movement and displacement. Found and inherited objects — my mother's 1960s suitcase, jewellery from my Egyptian aunt — become anchors for exploring personal and collective histories.
Through sculpture and installation, I rework discarded materials into new forms that speak to identity, environmental responsibility, and the emotional landscapes of migration. My practice seeks to reveal how the smallest, most overlooked objects can hold the weight of memory — and how making can become a way of carrying home.
My sculpture I Will Return is currently on loan to the National Trust, exhibited at Quebec House in Westerham until the end of 2026, and I have paintings on permanent display at the Platform Gallery at Penshurst Station. I have been an active member of the Art in June committee, contributing to the annual open studios event across Sevenoaks and the surrounding areas since 2018. I completed an MFA with Distinction at London Metropolitan University in 2023, receiving an Exhibition Award for my degree show, and was awarded the Judges Prize at the Sevenoaks Visual Arts Forum Open in 2024.
Recent work and shows:
· 'I Will Return', sculpture on loan to the Nationa Trust and exhibitted at Quebec House part of 'The Story of the Westerham Foundlings' exhibition, till end of 2026
· Repositories, an SVAF Sevenoaks Library and Kaleidoscope Art Gallery Project, Febuary 2026
· Domestic Pleasures, Kalediscope Art Gallery, October 2025
· UNRAVELLED, Small House Gallery, London, September 2025
· 'Woven Naratives' sculpture, TREEN (of a tree) group show, Sevenoaks Museum with Kalediscope Art Gallery, September 2025
· Contexture group show, The House of Smalls Art Gallery, Edinburgh, March 2025
· Childhood Interupted group show, The House of Smalls Art Gallery, Edinburgh, January 2025
· View From Other Side, solo show and 3 week resedency, Kaledoscope Art Gallery, Sevenoaks, August 2024
· The SVAF Open, Kaleidoscope Art Gallery, Sevenoaks, group show, January 2024. (Judges Prize Award)
. Final MFA show, London Met, September 2023. (Exhibition Award)
. Interaction, pop-up show, Easel and Camara Gallery, Elgouna, Egypt, July 2023
· The travel Hut, solo show and residency, Art in June 2023
· CONNECTIONS show, Kaleidoscope Gallery, Sevenoaks, group show 2023
· Like a Heartbeat, solo pop-up show, Galerie Greuclich, Frankfurt, May 2023
· Spaces Between, mobile installation and collaboration, London Met University winter show 2022
· Box of Tricks, Center for Recent Drawing (C4RD), March 2023. (the outcome of a month long residency)
· 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
Curating:
· The Space Between, Kaleidoscope Gallery, Sevenoaks, group show for Art In June Kent 2025
· CONNECTIONS show, Kaleidoscope Gallery, Sevenoaks, group show 2023
· Co-curated ROOTED, Sussex Prairie Garden, Sussex, group show 2022
· More Than and More More Than online group shows for SVAF, Sevenoaks, 2020, 2021
· Various shows at TOD Gallery
