About the Artist
Farah Maktari is an artist studying BA Fine Arts at Chelsea College of Arts, based in London, UK. Through exploring the fluidity of cultural identity and the relationship between humans and nonhumans, her work seeks to create a montage of the self. Being a multidisciplinary artist, she primarily works with textiles, painting, sculpture, and illustration.
Her current work investigates how cultures reinvent and morph through time from the impact of diaspora. Through puppetry and ritual, Farah explores how depicting cultures can be performative through elaborate textile costumes and tapestries.
Previous Shows
2023 – Intangible Absence & Belonging, Project68, UK
2023 – Farah Maktari, Solo Exhibition at St. Marylebone's Parish Church, UK
2022 – We Built this City, Royal Academy of the Arts, UK
2022 – RE/DE-construct, Maverick Projects Safehouse, UK
2022 – Maintaining the Integrity of an Object, St Margaret’s House in collaboration with Talitha’s Art Charity, UK
2021 – Pieces of Us: The Story of Yemeni Women, University of Michigan Online
2020 – Lockdown Unlocked, Online
Press & Published Work
2019 – BBC World Service ‘Heart and Soul: The Queen of Sheba’.