Portfolio and statement

1. Mixed
media
A4
2023

2. A site specific project, proposed for the marketplace brief, communicating the
problem of gentrification in predominantly ethnic areas using politicized pattern
and typography.
Acrylic paint
A3
2022

4. Paper maquettes based on studies and photography from Brimham Rocks.
Paper
Varied sizes
2022

5. The piece above is called “The Jungle”, originating
from a series of sketches made from a trip to Brimham
rocks, exploring the natural forms around us and
translating into artwork restricted to just white paper.
Analytical study based on ‘The Jungle’.
Acrylic paint
A3
2022

6. Expressing the cultural hybridity that
humans share through a series of
layered photomontage and translated
into acrylic paintings.
Acrylic paint on canvas
A1
2022
Mixed media collage
A4 ‘
2022

7. Acrylic paint
on canvas
A1
2022
Mixed
media
A4
2022

9. Observation studies.
Mixed media
A5
2021
Acrylic paint
and fine
liner
A2
2021

10. Acrylic paint
A4
2022

11. Acrylic paint and fine liner
A4
2022

12. Studies based on black and white a5 series, exploring addition and multiplication processes
Mixed media
10, 10cm
2022

13. Final piece communicating abstraction through the process of
addition and multiplication.
Acrylic paint
3 by 3 foot
2022

14. Visualizing my traditional pattern
experiments into a bus stop,
communicating the idea of a new
colourful and exciting way of
public transport.
Mixed media
A4
2021
Watercolour
and acrylic
A5/A4
2021

15. Mixed media collection of artworks exploring Kurdish traditional pattern, traditional Ottoman pattern.
Watercolour
A5
2021

16. 15 seconds, 30 seconds and 30
minutes life drawings.
Collaged life drawings responding to the
theme of ‘more’.
Ink,
pencil,
fine
liner and
oil
pastel
A3
2023

17. Watercolour
A5
2022

18. Exploring my hybrid identity and the relationship between the British and Kurdish through a reinvented Union Jack
using traditional Kurdish imagery and patterns.
Watercolour
A3
2022

19. Modernised and politicized pattern communicating the relationship of Britain/Kurdistan and my identity.
Acrylic paint
and beads
on canvas
3 by 4 foot
2022

20. Artist statement
I am a fine artist that is primarily interested in 2d ways of working, using mediums like acrylic paint, watercolour, fine liner, and experimenting on photoshop.
In the past year I’ve been exploring and gravitating towards expressing my culture through collage, layering and pattern.
I’m really interested in the process of making the final piece and the possibilities of how an artwork can change through layered images, colour and mark
making. A lot of times I think some of the development pieces can look more interesting than the result for a project.
My final major project is coming up and I would like to continue with culture and identity themed artworks using painting, photoshop and collage, but pushed
to a larger scale. I want to experiment more using lots of studies, sketches and photoshop experiments.
Artists who have inspired my recent work include Alice Rahon- for her dream-like paintings and powerful use of vivid colour, Kehinde Wiley is another artist
that stuck with me for his staged pattern portraits, I like the theme of culture and identity within his work and how he paints people’s expressions.
I’m an artist who is inspired from the outside world, having had the privilege to travel to different places and countries has impacted my artwork so much,
once I start with an idea from something I’ve seen or experienced, I like to then see how other artist have created based off of similar ideas.
I often find myself sticking to what I know I’m good at, which can be good for an artist to develop their own style but in the past 2 years I’ve developed skills in
photoshop that correlate to my collage work, I’ve tried out projection which was a fun experience to see one of my paintings been projected in such a huge
and immersive way.
I specifically want to study fine art painting as even though I’d say drawing is the foundation behind all artworks, it doesn’t feel like a finished product to me,
when I draw it’s always a sketch for it to be layered, mutated, and translated into something like a painting.
I’ve visited Brighton a few times over the past couple of summers and I think it’s such a vibrant city with such kind and interesting people, it reminds me of
London in how many creative people there is in one place, but parts of it still remind me of where I live with the cute cafes , charity shops and how walkable
and green the city is.
In the future, as a student and working individual wherever I am across the world, I hope to be engaging with other artists, competitions and companies with
the same ethics and goals as me, I see myself working within art/creative direction or developing my pattern work in textiles, I also see myself travelling and
being inspired from the cultures I see.