Trailblazing women artists, who are creating work inspired by Islamic tradition, imagining a new future for Islamic art & culture.

Iranian artist, Anahita Alavi specialises in Persian Miniature and Islamic Illumination. She trained in the art of traditional painting under the supervision of a number of great masters in Iran.

Canadian artist Salwa Najm is a contemporary realist & calligraphy painter. With an admiration of Islamic history and architecture, her detailed and colorful paintings pay homage to the most magnificent mosques built throughout the centuries.

Dubai based artist, Yosra Emamizadeh started drawing from a young age while growing up in Tehran, Iran. Her cultural heritage, identity and faith work are deeply rooted and reflected in her work.

Artist Kelly Izdihar uses her art to express the social issues that she is passionate about. The visual arts are a great vehicle for social change, and through her work she’s been able to facilitate difficult but necessary discussions.

Artist Fatima Khan has a passion for Islamic architecture and history, and explores this in her magnificent paintings.

British Pakistani artist Maryam Wahid explores her heritage through household & family experiences. Using photography she challenges the perception of Muslim women, South Asian neighborhoods in Britain & the notion of belonging.

Known for her minimalist, abstract, artworks that draw together elements of language, spirituality and traditional Islamic art, artist Lulwah Al Homoud uses calligraphy and mathematical processes to form her own visual language.

London based artist Mobeen Akhtar, specialises in the traditional arts. Her work takes you through a journey of colour and meticulous detail heavily inspired by traditional Islamic art.

UK based educator and mixed-media artist Ayesha Ahmed work is focused on modern Arabic lettering and abstract art, which she uses to showcase beauty, and express her love for the written word.

Saudi/Egyptian artist Shahad Nazar's work makes you stop, take notice and reflect. Her digital collage artworks contemplate social messages, highlight feminist issues, and raise ideas that concern the youth, particularly young women.

Digital Artist Christina Rountree is a historian, a storyteller, and a voice for communities. She uses her work as a tool to celebrate Black American Muslim and recently launched her first collection of Islamic art NFTs.

Naseeba Khader is a Mississauga based artist whose passion is Islamic art and architecture. She is on a quest to absorb and learn as much as possible, and to translate that knowledge with her pen or paintbrush.

U.K based artist Fatima Zahra Hassan is an expert miniature painter trained in traditional Indo-Islamic, Mughal and Persian painting. Taking a modern twist on this tradition, she teaches and exhibits her work in galleries and museums.

Bangladeshi-born British textile artist and designer Rezia Wahid is passionate about the traditional craft of weaving, which she relates Islamic art through seeking to capture the divine light.

In artist Safia Latif works, the Islamic architectural elements and vivid colors are reminiscent of orientalist painter Jean-Léon Gérôme. Influenced by impressionist painters, her paintings are distinguished by loose & textured brush strokes.

Artist Sha Guevara's work tells stories which are about celebrating something long forgotten, and a reclamation narratives. She is interested in colonial legacies, social justice and using art as a tool for change.

For visual artist Margi Lake, the beauty, mystery and genius of Islamic geometric patterns is timeless and universal. They express the principles and realities that govern the cosmos, the natural world and human nature.

Shaimaa Osman is a Dutch-born, North African Sudanese junior doctor & artist based in Devon. She is renowned for her creative approach to Islamic art, through an exploration of geometry, calligraphy, maps & collage.

Whilst studying mathematics at university, artist Emily Washington found inspiration in Islamic geometry. After learning more about Islamic illumination, she developed a unique style bringing a contemporary twist to this traditional art-form.

Clarissa Grandi is a UK-based geometric artist & teacher of mathematics. She is influenced by Islamic pattern and explores the interplay between rigid, regular, human-made geometry and nature’s organic, chaotic geometries and symmetries.

Known for her ingenious use of colour and mastery of Islamic geometry, biomorphic patterns and illumination, Dr. Esra Alhamal is an artist & researcher based in London. Her work experiments & reinterprets traditional practices in contemporary ways.

Artist Sha Guevara's work tells stories which are about celebrating something long forgotten, and a reclamation narratives. She is interested in colonial legacies, social justice and using art as a tool for change.

For British Muslim Artist Shaheen Ahmed empathy is central to her practice. Islamic geometry is core to her work, and she explores social justice using maps as a tool for conversation.

UK based artist & educator Samira Mian has a passion for Islamic art & culture. An experienced teacher of mathematics with Islamic geometry, she has created a contemporary take on tradition, promoting her art both in the UK & internationally.

Artist Elisabeth Deane's impeccable use of colours and detailed brushwork are inspired by Islamic geometry and the miniature painting traditions of India and Iran.