We may look different but we’re not

During my research I found a campaign called Get to know us first, it was created after the state of California passed an amendment that divorced same-sex couples.  The aim of these videos was to ‘put a face’ to the issue, it shows gay and lesbian couples as parents, community activists, to try and show [...]

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Love collage 2

Here are two more examples of my ‘love in Islam’ collages. The top image is that of a young 11 year old Afghani girl whose hand was given in marriage to a 40 year old man, this is to the highlight that things like this are a reality within the Muslim community but actually have [...]

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British Muslims

I spoke to Mac yesterday, once he saw my piece with the smiling Muslim woman set against the word jihad, he advised me to take more photos like it except in different settings to combat the stereotype.  For example a photo of her having tea whilst reading the Guardian.  But then I thought I might [...]

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International Women’s Day

Muslim Jewish Women’s Workshop The aim is of this workshop was to bring Muslim and Jewish women together from across Manchester to create a piece of art that could be displayed within the wider Manchester community raising awareness of International Women’s Day and Muslim and Jewish women’s contribution to this. This was a great opportunity [...]

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Love

I made a collage using newspaper as the backdrop because I believe the media plays a major role in encouraging certain stereotypes of Muslims.  The newspapers was black and white whilst the images I layered on the newspaper are colourful and represent the diversity of Muslims instead of the black and white image that the [...]

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Jinoos Taghizadeh

Jinoos Taghizadeh is an Iranian artist, who produced a piece of work called Rock, Paper, Scissors to mark the 30th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution.  Her collages mix contemporary newspaper articles about the revolution with famous western artworks to explore the gap between hope and reality.  Here are some examples of her work: She takes [...]

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Proposal for Term 6

I really should have put this up first but it completely slipped my mind, here it is now though: Project title British Muslim What do you want to do? This project will be broken into three main stages: Research – I want to look at 3 main things; misconceptions/stereotypes of Muslims/Islam, Islamophobia and the identity [...]

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Work inspired by Shirin Neshat (2)

Following on from Neshat’s theme of ‘contrast’ I created 4 more images (the photos are not mine, they’re Johan Oldekops); in them I used colour to contrast the black and white writing.  The fourth photo is perhaps my favourite, the picture is of my sister-in-law, who is the most colourful person I know.  Her radiant [...]

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Work inspired by Shirin Neshat

Looking at the theme of contrast I took pictures of Muslim girls, I made the photos black and white to emphasise the theme and then went even further by placing words behind them; that have in the past been associated with Muslims, that contradicted their image. I enjoyed producing these posters as it allowed me [...]

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Shirin Neshat

Shirin Neshat is a visual artist whose parents came from Iran.  Neshats parents completely disowned the ideologies and customs of their home country.  However her father encouraged her to be an independent person and to think for herself, because he belived in the freedom of thought and beliefs.  Neshat now lives in New York, and [...]

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