Farwa Moledina
Farwa Moledina’s work is often a study of the female Muslim identity. She is most interested in how the western historical art narrative portrays the Muslim woman, and whether this has impacted how Muslim women are viewed in the contemporary world.
She explores these issues through the use of pattern and textile. The patterns she designs are inspired by the Islamic Design Principles, such as those of recurrence, symmetry and abstraction. The use of textile is an important aspect of her work as textile has evolved from being a craft concerned with the domestic to being reclaimed by women artists, re-establishing textiles as an art-form within a patriarchal narrative.
She has exhibited widely within the UK including at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, the Midlands Art Centre, The Holden Gallery and the New Art Gallery Walsall. Internationally, she has shown in Lahore as part of a collateral exhibition for the Lahore Biennale and at Warehouse421 in Abu Dhabi. Currently, Moledina is showing her first solo exhibition titled Women of Paradise at Ikon Gallery. The work is a comment on the supposed neutrality of museums and galleries and presents as a study of the four most revered women in Islamic tradition. Her work has been acquired by Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, The New Art Gallery Walsall and private collectors.
