SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2024 Supersymmetry, Grosvenor Gallery, London, 11 April - 3 May

2022 Geometric Light, The Turnpike Gallery, Leigh, 15 October - 17 December

Breath, Grosvenor Gallery, London, 7 - 29 July

Light upon Light, A touring solo exhibition, Rugby Art Gallery and Museum 18 September - 13 November 2021; Gallery Oldham, 22 January - 14 May 2022; The Atkinson, Southport, 22 June - 24 September

2021 Breath, Solo show at Peabody Essex Museum, Massachusetts, USA, Dec 2020 - June 2021

2019 Grids and Sub-Grids, Solo show of sculpture at Hopstreet Gallery, Brussels, Oct 2018 - Jan

2014 Symmetry in Sculpture, Solo show of sculptural work at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, May 2014 - Jan 2015

2009 Araam: Breathing Space, A touring art exhibition curated by Shisha and Mid-Pennine Arts, Mid Pennine Arts, Burnley, Jul - Sept

2008 Handasah - Unity in Pattern, at the William Morris Gallery, London, Feb - March 2008

2007 The Beauty of Abstraction, Light animation and paintings, touring show commissioned by Cartwright Hall Art Gallery, Bradford, West Yorkshire, Nov - Jan

2005 Handasah - Unity in Pattern, Stockport City Art Gallery, Feb - March 2005

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024 Art Dubai, Grosvenor Gallery, UAE

HARDPAPER, Phoenix Art Projects, Brighton, March

Solo-show as Arthouse, Wakefield (Autumn '24)

2023 Open City Festival, Lublin Poland

2022 Abu Dhabi Art, Grosvenor Gallery, UAE

The Beauaty of Abstraction & Sharjah Spirit, Southbank Centre, London, 9 Nov '22 - 8 Jan '23

From Spark to Spirit, Noor Riyadh (curated by Neville Wakefield), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, November 2022-February 2023 (Exhibiting Numina)

The Lindisfarne Gospels, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, 17 Sept - 3 Dec

Zum Zum, The Folding World, Patrick Heide Contemporary, London, 8 July - 17 Sept

Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, (Selected by Grayson Perry), London, 21 June - 21 August

Here After, Bridge Projects, Los Angeles, USA, 7 May - 30 July

Art Dubai, Grosvenor Gallery, UAE, March

2021 Making Paradise, curated by Esen Kaya, Aga Khan Centre, London, May - Sept

2019 Possible Architectures, curated by Saturation Point, University of Greenwich, Nov

Forgotten Enlightnements, Halle 14, Leipzieg, Germany, April - Aug

2018 Prince and Patron, selected by HRH Prince of Wales to exhibit at Buckingham Palace, Jul - Oct

AYAH - Digital Art as Collaborative Community practice, Jun - Jul, London

2017 Measuring Infinity, Hopstreet Gallery, Brussels, Belgium, Mar - June

WARP Contemporary Art Platform, Belgium, Mar - May

2016 Sharjah Islamic Arts Festival, Sharjah Art Museum, UAE, Dec 2015 - Jan 2016

2015 Royal society of Scottish painters in watercolour, Edinburgh, Jan 2015

Islamapolitan, Maraya Arts Centre, United Arab Emirates, June - Aug 2014; Istanbul Design week, Istanbul, Turkey, 5 - 9 Nov 2014; Milan Expo Milan, Italy, April 2015

2011 Light Passion, Darkness - South Asian Artists, Sept - Jan 2011 (touring show across UK)

2009 Contemporary Pakistani Artists Aug - Sept, Laurent DeLaye Gallery, London

2004 Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London, Selected by Peter Randall-Page, November 2004

 

COMMISSIONS

Brighter Future, Piccadilly Circus, Art of London and National Gallery X, August 2022

Winter Light, works across the Southbank Centre, London, Nov '21 - Feb '22

'Invisible Threads' a light installation made up of 54 lightboxes, with moving lights, and sound programmed with a generative algorithm commissioned by the Barnaby Festival, June - Oct 2018

'Numina', commissioned by the Barbican Centre, London. Numina maps animated mathematical patterns onto a sculpture composed of tessellating pyramids arranged on a hexagonal grid, Oct '16 - Jan '17

Patterns of India, commissioned by the British Council. The app allows the user to explore geometric patterns like a musical instrument. November 2016

Sharjah Spectrum, an interactive digital animation created for the Sharjah Islamic Arts Festival, UAE, January 2016

Transcender, Visual backdrop and animation for Sain Zahoor and Faiz Ali Faiz at the Barbican Centre, London, 27 September 2015

Southend Colour, An interactive digital animation on the big screen at Focal Point Gallery, Southend

 

COLLECTIONS

University of Warwick, UK

Maraya Art Centre, Sharjah, UAE

Paintings in Hospitals, UK

Cartwright Hall Museum and Art Gallery, UK

Rochdale Touchstones Gallery, UK

Expedia

The Prince's Foundation, UK

Leicestershire County Council Artworks Collection, UK

VITAL ARTS - Royal London Hospital, UK

Print Collection, Victoria & Albert Museum, UK

Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, USA

 

AWARDS

Arts Council Funding for a solo touring show, 2021

Winner of the Lumen Prize for Digital Art, 2017

Artist International Development Award from the British Council and Arts Council, 2014

Arts Council funding, 2013

Waltham Forest Annual Awards for Art, 2010

Mosaic Award for Arts and Culture, 2008

 

PUBLIC ART

3D wall of hexagons for Theatre Deli, Broadgate, London, Jan - March 2018 (Temporary)

Mural commissioned by Wood St Walls, London. (Permanent)

Magic Carpet, light projection on the William Morris Gallery for the Walthamstow Garden party, commissioned by Artillery, CREATE and Barbican, July 2014, July 2015

Paint the Town, designing 25 shop shutters in Barking, commissioned by Design for London and the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham, 2013. (Permanent)

Cloud 10, at the departure lounge at the Royal London Hospital, London, 2012, commissioned by VITAL ARTS. (Permanent)

 

PUBLICATIONS

Forgotten Enlightenments, published by Halle 14, Liepzieg, Germany, 2019

Sharjah Islamic Arts Festival, with 33 other exhibiting Artists, 2016

Islamapolitan, exhibition catalogue, 2014

Araam, duo catalogue with Halima Cassell, essays by Daud Sutton and Valerie Grove, 2011

Handasah, solo catalogue, essay by Keith Critchlow, 2004

 

EDUCATION

MA, Islamic Art, Prince's School, accredited by the University of Wales, London, 2004

BA Hons English Literature and History, University of Manchester, 2001