Fahmida Shah (born 1966) is a British-born Asian silk painter.[1]
Life
editFahmida Shah was born in England,[1] in 1966.[2] She has worked as a project coordinator for the Bedford Asian Women's Textile Project. In 1993 she took part in the Nehru Gallery's National Textile Project, which solicited embroidered panels from Asian women's groups across Britain for display in the Victoria and Albert Museum.[1] In 1994 she took part in the South Asian Contemporary Visual Arts Festival, staged throughout the West Midlands,[3] as one of three craft makers at the Foyle Gallery, Midlands Arts Centre.[1]
A hand-painted sari by Shah is included in the collection of saris held by Cartwright Hall in Bradford.[4] The sari was shown in Unbound: Visionary Women Collecting Textiles, the 2020 exhibition at Two Temple Place.[5]
References
edit- ^ a b c d Bhagat, Dipti (2002). "Shah, Fahmida". In Alison Donnell (ed.). Companion to Contemporary Black British Culture. Routledge. p. 383. ISBN 978-1-134-70025-7.
- ^ City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council. "Bradford Museums & Galleries: Collections Development Policy 2019 – 2024" (PDF). bradfordmuseums.org. Retrieved 4 February 2022.
- ^ "South Asian Contemporary Visual Arts Festival - Conference Leaflet". Retrieved 4 February 2022.
- ^ Nima Poovaya-Smith (2012). "Keys to the Magic Kingdom: The new transcultural collections of Bradford Art Galleries and Museums". In Tim Barringer; Tom Flynn (eds.). Colonialism and the Object: Empire, Material Culture and the Museum. Routledge.
- ^ Unbound: Visionary Women Collecting Textiles (PDF). Two Temple Place. 2020. p. 79. ISBN 978-0-9570628-9-4.