@ShaheenAhmedArtist

Once regarded as a lesser art form, today’s craft makers are using their work for activism, to disseminate messages to a wider audience and to give people

Shaheen Ahmed gained a Diploma in Art and design in her home town Burnley, where she started out as a paste up artist working for a high street printing company. She continued to pursue a formal art education and gained a Foundation in Textile Technologies at Bolton University and a Degree in Silk Screen and Lino Printing at Bourneville School of Art (BCU). In 2009 Shaheen studied Bookbinding and Gestural Mark Making in Arezzo and Rome. As part of a Paul Mellon Award in 2021, Shaheen collaborate

Born in Burnley Lancashire, Shaheen is a female British Artist whose parents are from Gujarat Pakistan. Shaheen is settled in Birmingham and practises as a Muslim, reaching out to injustices across…

Interwoven both materially and historically, Birmingham, Dhaka, and Lahore are three geographical spaces that share a history of textiles

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