Asuf Ishaq

As a visual artist, my art practice is concerned with themes of embodiment, fragmentation, displacement, migration and memory. I unravel personal cultural narratives. Often working with narrative, words, sound, film, and images, deploying fiction, non-fiction, archival material that manifest as moving image, sculptures, installations and sound. After graduating with MFA Fine Art from Goldsmiths College of Art in 2020. I am a recipient of a film commission fund from Image Behaviour at ICA in London. My sculptural work was selected by Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2021, showing at two exhibitions South London Gallery in London and Firstsite gallery in Colchester (2021/22), my film work was screened at Grounding at Goldsmiths CCA in London. And a solo exhibition Inside the Country of the Skin exhibition at Stryx in Birmingham, I was also selected for the Artist Residency at Stryx (2021). My film Mother is selected by The London Open exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery 2022. I grew up in Birmingham and studied in Birmingham, Brighton and London. I am a part-time associate lecturer at Camberwell College of Arts on the BA Fine Art programme. London and Birmingham