NASRIN PARVAZ - SURVIVOR ARTIST

END OF IMPRISONMENT, END OF BORDERS
2023
Acrylic and Gouache
29.7 × 42cm
Framed

Nasrin’s work explores personal and political journeys based on both her life and collective experiences that she has witnessed and heard about. She is interested in evoking an emotion expressing the concerns of everyday life such as imprisonment, immigration, poverty - but also seeing the other side with hope and kindness. Her exploration of these subjects started with the realisation that there were no pictures or vivid paintings from the time when she was a political prisoner for eight years in Iran. Her background study was not art, so while she started to work with watercolours at home to depict the images of prison, she went to life drawing to learn proportion. Her hands met clay for the first time in 2018 and she worked with several different printing methods which helped her realise that she could say what she wanted to through art. Both her writing and art are about our historical time: brutal power politics and social in justices all over the world as well as the collective trauma this places on people. Her books: ‘One Woman's Struggle in Iran, A Prison Memoir’, and ‘The Secret Letters from X to A’, were published by Victorina Press in 2018.

Terms and Conditions: Please note all works will be available for collection from Wednesday 8 November 2023 at Freedom from Torture offices, 111 Isledon Road, London N7 7JW. The artwork will be safely stored, free of charge until Friday 15 December 2023. Alternatively, Freedom from Torture can help organise national and international delivery of artworks through a third party, to the winner. The winning bidder will be responsible for all delivery costs and will be invoiced directly by the third party.