“Knowing we’re made from clay reminds me we’re all equal before Allah, it’s only our deeds that set us apart.” - Iram

British Pakistani Islamic calligraphy artist Iram explores faith through material and form, moving from biomedical sciences and medical writing back into a self-taught practice rooted in Qur’anic reflection.

Her work centres Islamic calligraphy, clay, and earthy materials to reflect on creation and return. In Islam Through My Eyes, she presents a ceramic vase inscribed with Qur’anic verses on human creation from clay, using circular composition to echo the cycle of life, death, and return to the earth.

The work holds space between identity, faith, and lived experience, opening reflection on tawhid, humility, and what it means to create as a Muslim artist in the West.

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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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From anxiety to Islamic illumination, Zahirah Hafiz reflects on the journey behind her exhibition piece The Path. What began as mindless doodling during periods of severe anxiety has developed into a considered practice rooted in Islamic geometric pattern, illumination, and storytelling.

Her work traces a shift from mental overwhelm to intentional creation, where structure, pattern, and colour become tools for reflection. In The Path, a bold central route moves through an intricate background, symbolising qadr, tawakkul, and the unseen wisdom within closed doors and changing life chapters.

Through this conversation, Zahirah also reflects on being a Muslim artist in the West, navigating visibility, value, and the tension between cultural expectations and artistic practice, while holding onto a belief in detail, presence, and divine care.

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@lifeindetailuk

www.lifeindetail.co.uk

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Talat Ahmed rediscovered art later in life, finding in it a way to reflect, remember, and connect. Her practice centres on Allah's names and attributes, and painting became a means of honouring her late mother while nurturing her own wellbeing. Her piece in this exhibition, Al-Baseer, reflects on the limits of her own sight alongside Allah's Name Al-Baseer, the All-Seeing and All-Noticing.

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Bradford-based artist and founder of Fayakunu, Kasim works across woodwork, pottery, and community teaching. His path moved through trade work, interior architecture and design at Coventry University, and back into Bradford where he established a studio rooted in local learning, making, and shared practice.

His work includes public sculpture in City Park (2023), reflecting migrant histories, the mills, and the layered identity of Bradford’s communities. Alongside this, his practice focuses on honest material use, exposed joinery, and natural finishes, drawing attention to structure, process, and care.

In Islam Through My Eyes, he presents furniture made using Mexican Parota wood, shaped with fine joinery and French polishing, influenced by low Japanese forms. The work reflects humility in scale and posture, and a return to grounded, intentional living through design.

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@krt.instudio

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