Oil on canvas 1.5 x 2.20 metres The orange monument emerged without prior programme or illustrative intention. I had visited Estakhr near Apadana in Persepolis some time back and had a sense of wonder about its history and habitus, and the obscured remains of one or two half buried marble …
The Archaeology of Self is a collection of thirty-three large fired-clay sculptures suspended in space. They emerged from extended periods of direct observation of the female form, drawing both upon my own body and upon the young women who attended life classes at the University of Tehran during my research. …
The ‘verticals’ are a body of sculptural works made in 2001, developed through an extended conceptual and material investigation into verticality as an idea of uprightness, ascent, line, and bodily extension. The final pieces were not modelled in the round but cut away from a prepared bed of white grogged …