Alinah Azadeh was born in the UK in 1968. Her background is in fine art – painting, video and digital media - and in 2001 she completed an MA in Contemporary Media Practice at the University of Westminster.

Recent works include The Gifts, (2010) a suspended installation of 999 objects given to the artist by the public and wrapped in cloth.

This commission, for Bristol Museum and Art Gallery through the shape of things, was her first major solo show in the UK. The Bibliomancer’s Dream (2009) and Dream On (2010), two large-scale, interactive book installations commissioned by South Bank Centre, London were developed in collaboration with sculptor Willow Winston.

‘Chasing Mirrors: Portraits of the Unseen’, is a collaborative installation for The National Portrait Gallery, playing with ideas of non-figurative portraiture.

Many of her public installations result from processes of collaboration and participation, with other practitioners, specific groups and/or the public.

She works across disciplines, and is currently focused on working with cloth, poetry, mirroring and personal or found objects.

Alongside her public work, she makes smaller works, including fabric sculptures and drawings.

Alinah lives in Lewes, East Sussex, where she has her studio.

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