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Between Flesh and Remembering: On Personal Histories, Queer Intimacies, and Poetic Gestures, 2023 - Present

Slay, 2025, enamel paint on canvas, 152 x 152 cm The jumpsuit he never paid for, 2025, enamel paint on canvas, 122 x 122 cm Venus retrograde madness, 2025, enamel paint on canvas, 152 x 152 cm Nafees is tired, 2024, enamel paint on canvas, 196 x 135 cm Camera on the roof, 2023, enamel paint on canvas, 107 x 137 cm Check Milo, 2023, enamel paint on canvas, 137 x 137 cm He used to play hide and seek with me, 2023, enamel paint on canvas, 84 x 122 cm Dancing during the earthquake, 2023, enamel paint on canvas, 137 x 137 cm I enjoy swimming, 2023, enamel paint on canvas, 84 x 122 cm I like his energy, 2023, gloss paint on canvas, 107 x 137 cm Rocky came to save me, 2023, enamel paint on canvas, 122 x 122 cm
Cut-out Experiments (work-in-progress), 2024 - Present
Abu's Telephone, 2024, enamel paint on canvas and MDF, dimensions variable Abu's Telephone and The Shed, 2024, enamel paint on canvas and MDF, dimensions variable New Constructions I & II, 2024, enamel paint on canvas and MDF, dimensions variable The Boy and The Crows, 2024, enamel paint on canvas and MDF, dimensions variable Cut-out Memories (multiple works), 2024, enamel paint on canvas and MDF, dimensions variable Cut-out Memories (multiple works), 2024, enamel paint on canvas and MDF, dimensions variable
Installation Views: We Were Never Meant to Survive, 2024


We Were Never Meant to Survive, solo exhibition at Vane, Gateshead, 2024. Photographs courtesy: Mark Duffy
Installation Views: No Last Dance, 2024


I Learnt to Have Sex Early, 2024. Site-specific collage using cut-out paintings on the gallery wall. Exhibited at: No Last Dance, curated by Helen Baker and Sue Spark, Newcastle Contemporary Art, Newcastle upon Tyne, 2024. Photographs courtesy: Mark Duffy.
Installation Views: Nothing Pure, 2023


Nothing Pure, curated by Mark Rohtmaa-Jackson, IMT Gallery, London, 2023. Exhibition also included artworks by: Ana Benlloch, Vilhjálmur Yngvi Hjálmarsson, Belladonna Paloma, Frankie Roberts and Richard Squires.

Photographs courtesy: Peter Otto.

Lockdown Lovers, 2022

Man in the changing room II, 2021, acrylic and Indian inks on watercolour paper, 56 x 76 cm Man in the changing room I, 2021, acrylic and Indian inks on watercolour paper, 56 x 76 cm Man in the changing room III, 2021, acrylic paint and Indian ink on watercolour paper, 56 x 76 cm Chris II, 2022, acrylic and Indian inks on watercolour paper, 112 x 76 cm Ludovic at Mont Rose, 2022, acrylic and Indian inks on watercolour paper, 76 x 112 cm A memory of S. I, 2021, acrylic and Indian inks on watercolour paper, 76 x 112 cm Swimming at 10pm II, 2022, acrylic and Indian inks on watercolour paper, 76 x 112 cm
Installation Views: Tracing Fragments, 2023


Tracing Fragments, curated by Daría Sól Andrews, Gerðarsafn Art Museum, Reykjavík, 2023. Exhibition also included artworks by Kathy Clark, Sasha Huber, Frida Orupabo, Hugo Llanes, and Inuuteq Storch.

Qasim and Ibrahim, 2021

Qasim I, 2021, Indian ink and emulsion paint on paper, 51 x 76 cm Qasim II, 2021, Indian ink and emulsion paint on paper, 51 x 76 cm Qasim and Ibrahim III, 2021, Indian ink and emulsion paint on paper, 51 x 76 cm Qasim and Ibrahim II, 2021, Indian ink and emulsion paint on paper, 51 x 76 cm Qasim and Ibrahim I, 2021, Indian ink and emulsion paint on paper, 51 x 76 cm

The Heat in Lahore, 2020 — 2021

No grills, please II, 2020, enamel paint on canvas, 46 x 76 cm Milo, 2020, enamel paint on canvas, 107 x 168 cm Figure painting, 2020, enamel paint on canvas, 137 x 168 cm Awesome mausam I, 2020, enamel paint on canvas, 168 x 168 cm The heat in Lahore, 2021, enamel paint on canvas, 152 x 244 cm Bring the fan, 2021, enamel paint on canvas, 107 x 137 cm Saad on the terrace, 2021, enamel paint on canvas, 168 x 168 cm Ibrahim, 2020, enamel paint on canvas, 137 x 168 cm The OGs, 2020, enamel paint on canvas, 152 x 305 cm Zulfi Ibrahim, 2020, enamel paint on canvas, 137 x 168 cm
Installation Views: Loop, 2023


Loop, Experimental Studio, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, 2023. Exhibition also included artworks by Madelaine Culver, Blue Mountain Arcturus, Charles Danby, Kate Liston, Rosie Morris, Neuschloss, Ginny Reed, Corin Sworn, Joanne Tatham and Tom O’Sullivan. Photographs courtesy: Mark Duffy.


Installation Views: Open Encounters, 2022


Open Encounters, curated by Benjamin Merten and Simon Melchers, ARTCO Gallery, Berlin, 2022. Exhibition included artworks by Tasnim Bagdadi, Sara Khan, Syowia Kyambi, Natasha Jozi, and Gloria Zein.

Photographs courtesy: Daniele Ansidei, 2022.