Farah’s work caught the judges’ eye with it’s vibrant colour and style.
She is definitely taking a non-traditional and individual route with her Islamic twist on pop art.
Radical Middle way have recently launched their ‘Urban Voices’ blog exploring the work of visual and performing artists. They featured a Q & A with Farah Bhoyroo, take a look here- read about the artist and her work.
Khyle Raja, one of our finalists last year, has done exceedingly well in pursuing his art career. His work is very original and intriguing and along with his architectural career he held his first exhibition at The Hubb in Birmingham.
The Hubb is the artistic space of graffiti artist Mohammed Ali, who closely assisted Khyle in setting up the exhibition. Khyle and Mohammed also collaborated and produced an extremely captivating piece of art work exploring the soul in the machine.
You can see a couple of features on Khyle and his exhibition in the Islamic Arts Magazine:
Closer look at the artist and his work
and
The Opening of The Soul in The Machine
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One of last years finalists, Sofia Niazi, had been very fortunate to have her work displayed as part of the Brit Pak exhibition at the Mica Gallery.
Her combination of colour, culture and creativity fused together dynamically, creating eye catching and inspiring work.
Read about the artist here- Brit Pak Featured Artist
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