Noorain Inam

(b 1998, Pakistan) lives and works in London. Her painting practice explores the construction of identity and belonging through a layering of cultural references and contexts. Inam creates uncanny, surreal and destabilising spaces by bringing together deeply personal experiences, storytelling and symbolic motifs. Exploring themes of longing and fear, these phantasmagorical worlds are a meeting ground for imagination and lived reality. She was a recently awarded the Wilhelmina Barns-Graham Residency Award for Emerging Artists which includes a three-month Residency at Porthmeor Studios, St Ives.

In 2019, she received a BFA from Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture and an MFA Painting from Slade School of Fine Art in 2022. Through these experiences, she melds miniature painting techniques with Western expressive gestural painting styles, to create complex emotional landscapes. Her solo, A dream that visited every night, opened at Indigo+Madder, London in January 2023. Selected exhibitions include Distortion and Dissonance, Where’s the Frame?, 2022, London; Shining Light, Bloomsbury Festival Prize Winner Presentation, London, 2021; and Collective Cohesion, Koel Gallery, 2020, Karachi.

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Studio Visit with Noorain Inam

Interview: Noorain Inam at Porthmeor Studios - September 2023

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Ocula Interview with Noorain Inam