Zarah Hussain CV www.zarahhussain.co.uk [email protected] Awards/Commissions o Held in the Hand – 2 sculptural pieces that can be touched by users. Commissioned by Leicestershire Museums, 2013 o Paint the Town – Designing 25 shop shutters in Barking, commissioned by Design for London and the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham, 2013 o Nominated for the Jameel Prize, 2013 o Commission from Vital Arts for The Royal London Hospital, Whitechapel, London 2012 o Waltham Forest Annual Awards for Art, presented by David Milliband, 2010 o Mosaic Award for Arts and Culture, 2008, presented by HRH Prince of Wales o British Council Grant 2010 o Arts Council Funding 2009 o AHRB Scholarship 2002 Collections Oldham Art Gallery Cartwright Hall Museum and Art Gallery Rochdale Touchstones Gallery University of Manchester The Prince’s Foundation Upcoming Solo Exhibitions Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, June – Aug 2014 Nour Festival, Kensington and Chelsea, London, Nov 2014 Selected solo exhibitions Araam: Breathing Space Residency and touring art exhibition curated by Shisha in collaboration with Mid Pennine Arts funded by the British Council and Arts Council England o Mid Pennine Arts, Burnley, July - Sept 2009 o Turnpike Gallery, Wigan, Jan – April, 2010 o Central Art Gallery Tameside, Jan – March 2011 o Waterside Arts Centre Sale, Jan-Mar 2011 o Zion Arts Centre Manchester, April 2011 The Beauty of Abstraction Commissioned by Cartwright Hall Art Gallery and funded by Arts Council England. o Rochdale Touchstones Art Gallery, Greater Manchester, Dec – March 2009 o Beecroft Art Gallery, Essex, Sept – Oct 2008 o Woodhorn, Newcastle, Northumberland, April-June 2008 o Fife Contemporary Art, St Andrews, Scotland, Jan – March 2007 o Cartwright Hall Art Gallery, Bradford, West Yorkshire, November 2006 – Jan 2007 Handasah – Unity in Pattern Commissioned by Shisha, the international agency for contemporary South Asian Crafts and Visual arts for the Parampara Project and funded by AGMA. o William Morris Gallery, Walthamstow, London Feb – March 2008 o Forge Mill, Redditch, Worcestershire, Oct – Nov 2007 o Harley Gallery, Wellbeck, Nottinghamshire May – July 2007 o Howarth Gallery, Accrington Lancashire Feb – April 2007 o Tameside Central Art Gallery, Greater Manchester June – August 2006 o Huddersfield Art Gallery, Huddersfield April – May 2006 o Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery, Blackburn Nov – Dec 2005 o Mid Pennine Arts, Burnley, Aug – Sept 2005 o Waterside Arts Centre, Sale June – August 2005 o Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery May 2005 o Stockport City Art Gallery Feb – Mar 2005 o Ordsall Hall, Salford Sept – Nov 2004 Selected Group Exhibitions o Light, Passion, Darkness – South Asian Artists, Sept-Jan 2011 (touring group show to visit Oldham Art Gallery, Huddersfield Art Gallery, Blackburn Art Gallery and Touchstones Rochdale) o Contemporary Pakistani Artists Aug-Sept 2009, Laurent DeLaye Gallery, London o Flicks – Unseen Dreams, Sept-Nov, 2007, South Hill Park Arts Centre, Bracknell o Discerning Eye, Nov 2004, Mall Galleries, London, Selected by Peter Randall-Page o On the Wall Art Fair, Oct 2004, Olympia, London o Art of Nations – June – August 2002, Gallery 20-21 Visual arts centre, Scunthorpe Publications Araam, duo catalogue with Halima Cassell, essays by Daud Sutton and Valerie Grove, 2012 Handasah, solo catalogue, essay by Keith Critchlow, 2004 Press BBC London Radio and Website, 2011 Times Educational Supplement, Feb 2007 BBC GMR Radio and Website, Jan 2007 Saudi Aramco World, Jan/Feb 2007 BBC Radio4 – More or Less, Dec 2006 BBC Radio3 – Night Waves, Nov 2006, Documentary – ‘The Black Cube’, 2009 Guardian guide, review by Robert Clark, Nov 2006 Asian Life, Dec 2005 Design Week, Jan 2005 Artist Newsletter (Front Page) Oct 2005 Manchester Metro, Aug 2004 Selected Education o Guest Lecturer and the Prince’s School for Traditional Arts, ongoing o Post-16 workshops and lectures at Barking and Dagenham College, 2013 o William Morris and Islamic Art – Project Manager, William Morris Gallery, 2009-2011 o Find your talent, A three-week project in conjunction with Whitechapel Art Gallery, Tower Hamlets, London, July 2010 o Maths and Geometric Art, A New Direction, Fulham Primary, Mar - June2010 o How am I amazing? A New Direction, Bruce Grove Primary School, Jan - Mar 2010 o Finding the Creative us? A New Direction, Woolmore Primary, Jan – Apr 2009 o Making Waves, Creative Partnerships North, Aug 2007 – March 2008, London o Rusholme Project, July – Aug 2006, Manchester City Art Gallery, Manchester o Identity and Islam, May – July 2006, Tate Britain Education, London o Docklands Museum and October Gallery, June 2006, Cultural Co-operation, London Education BA English Literature and History, University of Manchester, 2001 MA in Islamic Art at The Princes’ Foundation, accredited by the University of Wales, London, 2004 .