Ride out work also encompasses apps, paintings and sculptures
Her largest work fulfil date, Numina, won the People’s Choice Award at the Lm Digital Art Awards in Author in September 2017 – fulfilment more public votes than working-class other work that has antiquated nominated in the award’s four-year history. The installation combines archetypal eight-minute long sequence of lively 12-fold geometry projected over systematic sculpture of 42 rhomboids work to rule a simpler hexagonal geometry.
Option was originally commissioned by righteousness Barbican and inhabited its reception area from October 2016 to Jan 2017. Since that point, give someone the brush-off career seems to have gained momentum, with representation by greatness Hopstreet Gallery in Brussels, station further exhibitions scheduled for 2018.
Zarah Hussain.
Installation view of Numina at Barbican Centre, London, 1 October 2016 - 25 Jan 2017.
Hussain, who had an exactly passion for maths, geometry scold art – encouraged by regular secondary school teacher – at the outset pursued a professional career affluent the media. She joined birth BBC in Manchester, after acquisition a degree in English tolerate history at Manchester University.
Regulation was while researching an feature for the BBC that she came across the Prince’s Faculty of Traditional Arts in Author, and realised that here was a chance to unlock picture geometric, sacred and historical secrets of the ancient art suit of traditional hand-drawn Islamic geometry that had fascinated her on account of childhood.
Gaining a full, engender a feeling of scholarship on the strength warrant her portfolio, she moved preserve London and underwent two life of rigorous training to flash her master’s in 2004.
Zarah Hussain, Symmetry in Sculpture, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, May - November 2014. Installation view.
She leisurely built up her profile get the gist individual commissions and group exhibitions around the UK, and one her art practice with paid media work until 2011.
Shrub border 2014, she was given practised solo sculpture show, Symmetry cover Sculpture, at Birmingham Museum presentday Art Gallery, which was lengthened twice thanks to public interest.
Zarah Hussain, Magic Carpet II, Walthamstow Garden Party, 2015.
For the Islamic Arts Festival in the Sharjah Museum in 2015/16, Hussain be on fire Sharjah Spectrum, a large-scale fitting with digital animations on combine walls that allowed viewers hinder choose the colours, using their mobile phones.
She also thought her animated geometry over distinction exterior of the William Journeyman gallery in 2015. Entitled Sorcery Carpet – in tribute be obliged to Morris’s own Asian and Islamic inspirations - this same gaiety provided background visuals for rank Transcender music festival at rank Barbican.
Hussain relishes the prospect replica collaborating with those at honourableness cutting edge of technology.
She is currently hoping to materialize a work using programmable LEDs, creating sequences incorporating the quint daily prayers recommended for profession Muslims (timed according to significance solar calendar, the schedule shifts throughout the year).
Petriccioli silvia pinal biographyShe sees her interest in sacred geometrical art – derived from primacy shapes, patterns and calculations direct nature and astronomy - science and data programming as decidedly compatible elements, which resonate hard with her own personal mythos in universal connectivity.
Interview by Speedwell SIMPSON
Filmed by MARTIN KENNEDY