Foundation Diploma
Acrylic Paint
80.0 x 70.0 cm
2023
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About this artwork
This painting is painted over a previous work which happens in my practice regularly as I review and revisit experiences in my life. This is a bit of a stealth painting. I didn’t realise how it would make me feel and in some regards. I remember not liking the original painting one bit. It felt floral in a sickely way. However, what came from it, was this painting you see now.
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Shumaiya Khan is an artist, writer and creative. Born 1990, in Bradford, West Yorkshire to a British Bengali family, before moving to London to pursue higher education where she resides to this day. Khan comes from a design-led background, earning her BA Hons in Design from Goldsmiths, University of London. Although she has always painted, she has only fully resumed her art practice in April of 2020. Khan is self-taught and her work has always had an element of experimentation with textures and motion within an abstract framework built to engage emotion within her audience. Within her earlier critical theory design work, this has translated into recording statistics in visually fluid, quantifiable and measurable ways, via the use of ink, ceramics, and plants. Between 2010 to 2019, Khan’s sole focus was her creative & art direction roles within fashion, homeware and beauty. Khan produces contemporary abstract expressionist pieces via the use of acrylic, charcoal, chalk, and poetry across canvas and paper. At times, especially with her larger-scale abstract pieces, pigment is worked and layered into pieces over a series of days or weeks. Different viscosities of pigment are considered, adding dimension and rich texture into the vast worlds, solar systems, and oceans she creates. In juxtaposition to her full-colour works, Khan produces fast-paced, raw canvas and paper pieces. Brush strokes and charcoal lines are created at different paces, some with more initially thought-through intention than others. Khan sees the physicality’s of her visual painting language working towards an ever evolving image in her mind. Khan’s work is based in emotional and metaphysical storytelling. Her practice explores juxtapositions around dynamic behaviours in the sphere of; the relationship with ourselves, feminine expression & sensuality, societal interaction, morality, innate faith & spirituality. Khan often calls upon the viewers to look inside themselves and ask what they feel. She has stated previously that she is compelled to create, being both a meditative and explorative practice for her.
Curriculum Vitae
Born in 1990 in Bradford, UK. Currently residing in London, UK.
BA Hons Design MA Fine Art ‘Gold in the Forest’ at 67 Pall Mall, London ‘Fountain of Youth’ at The Lion and The Fox, Clerkenwell. ‘Gold in the Forest’ at 67 Pall Mall, London ‘Fountain of Youth’ at The Lion and The Fox, Clerkenwell. The space.com ‘Dawn Part II’ featured in artist roster ‘Art for Affordability’s Sake’ The Sunday Times 99 Future Blue Chip Artists 2023. Curated by Artsted 107 Female Artists You Need To Know in 2023, by Lucy Donovan. List includes Nadia Waheed, Flora Yukhnovich, Jade Fadojutimi, Simone Leigh, Kim Booker, Tracy Emin and Amy Sherald. Chair Trustee for Oitij-Jo Bengali arts and heritage charity VAA Shortlist UK & International Emerging Artist Award BLUP50 2022-23 talent cohort VAA Longlist UK & International Emerging Artist Award Greenwich Council Award for Creative Buisnesses
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