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 | 2023

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 Gallery, 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 WANAWAL, REFERENCE.POINT, 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 | 2024

Creative Strategies for Solidarity and Liberation, Mosaic Rooms, London | 2024

A Way Forward: Healing Justice for Creative Practice, ICF @ Block 336, London | 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

  • Immersive Arts Bootcamp, Birmingham Open Media Lab, 2024

  • 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:

  • Islamic Astronavigation and Art, National Space Centre, Leicester | 2024 (activity day)

  • Baesianz Community Iftar, Jumbi Peckham, London | 2024 (dinner event)

  • Into Disorder: An Evening Screening with Jack Halberstan, Tom Thumb Theatre, Margate | 2022 (screening event featuring the work of Meriem Bennani, Adham Faramawy, Ufuoma Essi, Sweatmother)

  • Anticolonial Film Discussion Group | 2020-21

  • Fastforward Feminism | 2018-2019, Festival and Reading Group, Institute of Advanced Studies, UCL

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):