CV
Awards and Residencies
New Artist Cohort #4, UKNA | 2024-25 (research focus: the Language of Machines)
Emerging Performers Residency, Downtown Contemporary Arts Festival, Cairo | 2024
Nurturing Ecologies Residency, Resolve Collective, Sheffield | 2023
Developing Your Creative Practice Grant, Arts Council England | 2022
New Contemporaries 2022
AMPlify Digital Residency, Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge | 2021-22
Associates Programme, Open School East, Margate | 2021-22
Selected Exhibitions and Screenings
‘Separated by Millennia’ solo exhibition curated by Jessica El Mal, Two Queens Leicester | 2024 (solo)
‘Petro-Logic/Machine Intimacy, Leicester Gallery, Leicester (group show) | 2023 (group)
‘Help Is On The Way, Dear’, Centrala Space, Birmingham | 2023 (group)
An Intimacy with Aliveness, Phytology Bethnal Green Nature Reserve, London | 2023 (group)
Wholeness, 2022 (screenings):
CineAstra Festival, Glasgow Women’s Library | 2023
Arab Women Artists Now (AWAN), Richmix, London | 2023
The NAWAL, REFERENCE.POINT 180, London | 2022
Two Queens, Two Screens, Two Queens Leicester | 2022
F(r)ictions, Camden Arts Centre, London | 2022
Mokumkraakt Squatters Collective, Amsterdam | 2022
Good Wickedry, TAPE Collective, Online | 2022
Mega Mega, Tom Thumb Theatre, Margate | 2022
AMPlify Showcase, Wysing Arts Centre, Online | 2022
Facilitation
Zine Making Workshop, part of ‘Islamic Astronomy and Art’, National Space Centre, Leicester
‘Creative Strategies for Solidarity and Liberation’, Mosaic Rooms, London (workshop) | 2023
‘A Way Forward: Healing Justice for Creative Practice’, ICF @ Block 336, London (workshop) | 2023
‘Imagining Nature in the Future: Sci FI & Zine Making’, Rehearsing Freedoms Festival, London (workshop facilitated with Bella Normark) | 2023
Commissions
‘I Love to You’, The Mechatronic Library, curated by Helen Starr | 2025
‘As We Are, Might Have Been and Could Be,’ The Arab British Centre, curated by Jessica El Mal | 2024
‘Help Is On The Way Dear,’ Contemporary Other | 2023
‘Queer Futures,’ Kohl Journal | 2023
‘An Intimacy with Aliveness,’ Phytology Bethnal Green, curated by Adelaide Bannerman | 2023 (billboard commission)
Discussions, Panels & Presentations
Separated by Millennia: In Conversation with Helen Starr, Art/Work Association, Auto Italia, London (recording here)
‘Sustainable Futures: Voices and Visions from the Global Majority’, De Montfort University, Leicester (panel discussion) | 2024
‘Human Rights Iftar’, Amnesty International and Inclusive Mosque Initiative, London (panel discussion with Shaista Aziz, Sumayyah Zannath, Nabila Hanson, moderated by Hareem Ghani) | 2024
‘The Untethered’, Radical Film School with Equalities Work | 2023
‘Narrative Building for Bold and Powerful Movements,’ Rehearsing Freedoms Festival, London (panel discussion with Sarah Joynt-Bowe, Micha Frazer-Carroll, Alex J. Bledsoe, chaired by Panthea Lee), 2023
The Conch, South London Gallery (artist talk with Mohammed Rahman and Emmanuel Awuni) | 2022
Education
Radical Film School
2023
Introduction to 2D Animation, CG Spectrum
2023
BASc in Arts and Sciences, University College London (1:1)
2019
Curation & Programming
Independently:
Astronavigation and Art, National Space Centre, Leicester | 2024 (activity day)
Baesianz Community Iftar, Jumbi Peckham, London | 2024 (dinner event)
‘Creative Strategies for Solidarity and Liberation’, Mosaic Rooms, London | 2023 (workshop)
Into Disorder: An Evening Screening at the Tom Thumb Theatre, Margate | 2022 (screening event)
Introduced by Jack Halberstam featuring the work of Meriem Bennani, Adham Faramawy, Ufuoma Essi, Sweatmother.
Anticolonial Film Discussion Group | 2020-21
Films included: Soleil Ô (1967), The Battle of Algiers (1966), Soy Cuba (1964)
Fastforward Feminism | 2018-2019, Festival and Reading Group, Institute of Advanced Studies, UCL
3-day festival.
With Healing Justice Ldn (as Programme Coordinator):
Rehearsing Futures: Experiments in Imagination with Abbas Zahedi, Gabriella Gomez-Mont and Marai Larasi, chaired by David A. Bailey, Conway Hall | 2023
Rehearsing Futures: Life Affirming Community Practice with Sanah Ahsan, Andre Anderson, Kwame Lowe, chaired by Micha Frazer-Carroll, Whitechapel Gallery | 2023
Deaths By Welfare Project Artist Commission | 2022
Sex and Rage: Rooted Heart Series | 2022
Plant Medicine, Healing, and Liberation: Dismantling Drugs Based Police Violence with Camille Barton | 2021
With Forensic Architecture (as Programme Assistant):
‘Assembled Practices’, exhibition A.M. Qattan Foundation, Ramallah, Palestine | 2020
‘True To Scale’, exhibition, Museum of Art and Design, Miami, USA | 2020