DOB: 17/02/1994
AWARDS/RESIDENCIES
2018
Current: Somerset House Studio Resident
Dice Festival, Edinburgh Fringe, August 2018.
Threads Salon ,Turner Contemporary, April 2018.
TADAEX 2016 & NODE 2017 Exchange Programme,Tehran | Frankfurt.
Shortlisted for the Zealous Graduate Art Prize 2016
PUBLICATIONS/INTERVIEWS
2018
D&AD: Making a mark in an ever-shifting landscape; The Future of Creativity
Dazed: Art shows to leave the house for this month
Skin Deep Magazine: Skin Deep meets Lilian Nejatpour
HyperAllergic Magazine: Wrestling with Iran's Strict Gender Roles Through Dance
Resonance 104.4FM: Six Pillars 'Choreophobia': Interview with Fari Bradley
Art Licks Magazine: ‘Issue 22: GORSEDD’
2017
Another Mag: A Poignant Short Film About Race, Religion & the Avant-Garde
ID Magazine: Expressions of Feminism from The Arab & Muslim Disapora
Dazed Digital: POCC
Gal-dem: POCC Interview
2016: NODE Forum: TADAEX 2016
AWARDS/RESIDENCIES
2018
Current: Somerset House Studio Resident
Dice Festival, Edinburgh Fringe, August 2018.
Threads Salon ,Turner Contemporary, April 2018.
TADAEX 2016 & NODE 2017 Exchange Programme,Tehran | Frankfurt.
Shortlisted for the Zealous Graduate Art Prize 2016
PUBLICATIONS/INTERVIEWS
2018
D&AD: Making a mark in an ever-shifting landscape; The Future of Creativity
Dazed: Art shows to leave the house for this month
Skin Deep Magazine: Skin Deep meets Lilian Nejatpour
HyperAllergic Magazine: Wrestling with Iran's Strict Gender Roles Through Dance
Resonance 104.4FM: Six Pillars 'Choreophobia': Interview with Fari Bradley
Art Licks Magazine: ‘Issue 22: GORSEDD’
2017
Another Mag: A Poignant Short Film About Race, Religion & the Avant-Garde
ID Magazine: Expressions of Feminism from The Arab & Muslim Disapora
Dazed Digital: POCC
Gal-dem: POCC Interview
2016: NODE Forum: TADAEX 2016
EXHIBITIONS
UPCOMING:
March 2019: 'Foreign Sleep' performed at Strange Love Festival, The Brewery Tap, UCA Project Space, Folkestone.
March 2019: 'This is not a Funeral', Group show at Regents Place, London.
ONGOING
Choreophobia film in collaboration with Rebecca Salvadori.
Documentary film for The Feminist Library, in collaboration with designer Lucy Sanderson.
2019
February 2019:
‘One Night Only’, Sculpture Show at Lewisham Art House, London.
'Transition to Foreign Sleep', performed with Q&A at Bath Spa University x Dance Spa Theatre Bristol, Bath.
March 2019
'Foreign Sleep' at Strange Love Festival 2019, The Brewery Tap, Folkestone.
This is not a Funeral', Group show at Regents Place, London.
2018
September 2018
'Choreophobia' (Final Iteration) at Somerset House, Lancaster Rooms, London.
August 2018
'Choreophobia' at Summerhall, Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2018, Dice Festival, Edinburgh.
'Choreophobia', Performance featuring Eva Escrich Gonzalez & Lauren Stewart. Panel Discussion with Loren Elhili and Nora Almes (To Whom This May Concern), Chisenhale Studios, London.
June 2018
'EAST: Eating At The Same Table', Group Show, Willesden Gallery, London.
May 2018
'Cairotronica, Festival of Electronic and New Media Art', Palace of Arts, Cairo Opera House Complex, Cairo, Egypt.
April 2018
'Threads Salon''- Turner Contemporary, Margate.
March 2018
'We Are Here, British BME Women'- LSE Library, London.
'GORSEDD'- Tenderbooks, London.
January 2018
'Feelings x CYAN'- CYAN Gallery, Oslo, Norway.
2017
October 2017
‘Saint (The Empty Pose)’- Film Score in collaboration with Georgina Johnson, Studio 3, Photographers Gallery, London.
September 2017
'Deptford X Festival', Deptford, London.
August 2017
'Feminism(s) x The Arab and Muslim Diaspora', Protein Studios, London.
June 2017
'BME Women', Alev Lenz Studio, London.
June 2017
'Designing Hope', NODE Festival, Naxoshalle, Frankfurt.
April 2017
'SLAB', APT Gallery, Deptford, London.
March 2017
'POCC', 47 Gallery, Camberwell, London.
2016-15
November 2016
'Has Moving Parts', Octavius Street, Deptford, London.
September 2016
'TADAEX 2016': Tehran Annual Digital Arts Festival- Mohsen Gallery, Tehran, Iran.
June 2016
'Goldsmith's Fine Art & History of Art Undergraduate Degree Show', New Cross, London.
November 2015
'Volume X', Professor Stuart Hall Building, Goldsmiths College, New Cross, London.
March 2015
'Disorientation', Mile End Ecology Pavilion, Mile End, London.
EDUCATION:
2013-2016: BA Fine Art & History of Art Honours, Goldsmith's College, University of London.
2012-2013: UAL Art & Design Foundation Diploma, The University Of Creative Arts, Epsom, Surrey.
UPCOMING:
March 2019: 'Foreign Sleep' performed at Strange Love Festival, The Brewery Tap, UCA Project Space, Folkestone.
March 2019: 'This is not a Funeral', Group show at Regents Place, London.
ONGOING
Choreophobia film in collaboration with Rebecca Salvadori.
Documentary film for The Feminist Library, in collaboration with designer Lucy Sanderson.
2019
February 2019:
‘One Night Only’, Sculpture Show at Lewisham Art House, London.
'Transition to Foreign Sleep', performed with Q&A at Bath Spa University x Dance Spa Theatre Bristol, Bath.
March 2019
'Foreign Sleep' at Strange Love Festival 2019, The Brewery Tap, Folkestone.
This is not a Funeral', Group show at Regents Place, London.
2018
September 2018
'Choreophobia' (Final Iteration) at Somerset House, Lancaster Rooms, London.
August 2018
'Choreophobia' at Summerhall, Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2018, Dice Festival, Edinburgh.
'Choreophobia', Performance featuring Eva Escrich Gonzalez & Lauren Stewart. Panel Discussion with Loren Elhili and Nora Almes (To Whom This May Concern), Chisenhale Studios, London.
June 2018
'EAST: Eating At The Same Table', Group Show, Willesden Gallery, London.
May 2018
'Cairotronica, Festival of Electronic and New Media Art', Palace of Arts, Cairo Opera House Complex, Cairo, Egypt.
April 2018
'Threads Salon''- Turner Contemporary, Margate.
March 2018
'We Are Here, British BME Women'- LSE Library, London.
'GORSEDD'- Tenderbooks, London.
January 2018
'Feelings x CYAN'- CYAN Gallery, Oslo, Norway.
2017
October 2017
‘Saint (The Empty Pose)’- Film Score in collaboration with Georgina Johnson, Studio 3, Photographers Gallery, London.
September 2017
'Deptford X Festival', Deptford, London.
August 2017
'Feminism(s) x The Arab and Muslim Diaspora', Protein Studios, London.
June 2017
'BME Women', Alev Lenz Studio, London.
June 2017
'Designing Hope', NODE Festival, Naxoshalle, Frankfurt.
April 2017
'SLAB', APT Gallery, Deptford, London.
March 2017
'POCC', 47 Gallery, Camberwell, London.
2016-15
November 2016
'Has Moving Parts', Octavius Street, Deptford, London.
September 2016
'TADAEX 2016': Tehran Annual Digital Arts Festival- Mohsen Gallery, Tehran, Iran.
June 2016
'Goldsmith's Fine Art & History of Art Undergraduate Degree Show', New Cross, London.
November 2015
'Volume X', Professor Stuart Hall Building, Goldsmiths College, New Cross, London.
March 2015
'Disorientation', Mile End Ecology Pavilion, Mile End, London.
EDUCATION:
2013-2016: BA Fine Art & History of Art Honours, Goldsmith's College, University of London.
2012-2013: UAL Art & Design Foundation Diploma, The University Of Creative Arts, Epsom, Surrey.