Alinah Azadeh
Alinah Azadeh is a British-Iranian artist with a background in painting, new media and video. Since her MA in Media Arts Practice at Westminster University (2001), she has created installations that combine textile media with texts and networked technology.
Her highly interactive works present the public with opportunities for self-reflection and an emotive dialogue with each other. She is interested in the poetic within everyday life and the use of ancient practices such as gift- giving, Moshaereh (communal poetry reciting) and bibliomancy (the art of diving with books) to inspire socially driven artworks.
Her small-scale series ‘Gifts of the Departed’ uses once-valued personal objects wrapped and bound in textile and connected with texts to create a poetic discourse on identity, loss and personal relationship. Alinah actively references her Iranian heritage through these new works in the use of object and textile interwoven with poetic narrative.
She was recently selected as one of eight artists for The Shape Of Things, a national commission for artists of culturally diverse backgrounds to produce major new works using craft media. Through this, she will be exhibiting ‘The Gifts’, a large-scale textile installation at Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery in 2010. Recent commissioning clients include South Bank Centre and the Crafts Council.
Alinah is supported in her artistic research by The Constance Howard Resource and Research Centre in Textiles, Goldsmiths University and is mentored by Prof Janis Jefferies.
Web site www.alinahazadeh.com
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