Artist
Azraa Motala
Artist
Artist Bio
Azraa Motala is a visual artist from Preston, currently based between the North West and the Midlands. Her practice and research explores the lived experiences of British South Asian women, including notions of identity, belonging, culture and heritage within the context of the contemporary Western space. Negotiating the position of insider and outsider in and amongst the familiar and foreign. Through large scale oil paintings, photography, poetry, video and site specific interventions she explores the polarity of the East and West, history, politics, empire and orientalist depictions of women in art.
Artwork Description
Brit-ish is an intimate visual representation of Motala’s complex relationship with her South-Asian and British identity, and references her time spent living in the South Lakes – a rural environment of the kind that can sometimes feel isolating to people of colour, and in which they are rarely portrayed.
