Amina Patel is a contemporary art student and multidisciplinary artist whose practice is shaped by her faith, lived experience, and research-based engagement with Palestine.

Her work draws from field visits to Palestine and reflects a focus on preserved architecture, community life, and beauty alongside narratives of loss. Working through sculpture and mixed media, she builds from primary observation and personal reflection rather than singular visual traditions.

As the only Asian Muslim woman on her course, Amina also reflects on navigating microaggressions, visibility, and the expectation of representing an entire identity within academic spaces. Her practice resists limiting Islamic art to a single form, instead opening it to broader material and conceptual expression.

Through her work, she explores intention, kindness, and quiet action as forms of expression that communicate values such as compassion, justice, and reflection, offering audiences a way to encounter Islamic perspectives through art and lived experience.

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Meenaaa's Artchive

For enquiries about original work, message Amina directly via Instagram.

Raodah Ibrahim is a Fine Art student whose practice moves between painting, Arabic calligraphy, and research-led visual storytelling.

Her journey began at GCSE Art and continued through formative gap years marked by uncertainty, experimentation, and gradual commitment to studying Fine Art at university. Alongside this, she has consistently been drawn to Arabic calligraphy and painting, learning over time to give space to that instinct rather than suppress it.

In Islam Through My Eyes, her work Punishment of Prosperity combines collage-like materials including wheat, water, fabric, tiles, and flowers to reflect the cultural richness of Al-Andalus, while chains and traces of blood reference exile, loss, and historical oppression. The work draws parallels between this history and the lived experiences of migrants and minorities today.

She also presents an abstract piece centred on a Qur’anic ayah, developed during a period of personal uncertainty about continuing as an artist. Her practice is shaped by research, reflection, and emotional state, with Arabic calligraphy approached as a form requiring care, intention, and reverence.

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@rawdah_studios

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For enquiries about original work, message Raodah directly via Instagram.