Biography
Farnoush Amini is an Iranian-born, London-based sculptor, installation and performance artist whose practice explores memory, political tension, displacement, and the fragility of human existence through material language. Drawing on lived experiences of revolution, war, censorship, and the suppression of women in Iran, her work investigates the psychological impact of political and cultural boundaries and the tension between visibility and concealment, how migration reshapes relationships to identity, language and home.
Amini employs materials including human hair, textile, metal, wood,clay, concrete, ice, feather, and found objects to create poetic yet unsettling environments. By transforming familiar materials into unfamiliar forms, she invites viewers into spaces charged with vulnerability, anxiety, absence and implied narratives. Her practice is deeply research-led, informed by documentary footage, historical references, and personal memory.
Amini graduated from Art Academy London in 2019 and has since exhibited internationally, including exhibitions in London, Spain, USA and Poland. Her work has been shown at the “Political Art” exhibition at the Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art and at exhibitions with the Royal Society of Sculptors. She is a recipient of the Passion for Freedom People’s Choice Award and the Sheros Revoluciones Prize, and was selected for the Thirsk Hall Sculpture Garden show.
Influenced by artists such as Doris Salcedo and Parviz Tanavoli, Amini’s work examines the relationship between materiality, symbolism, and political experience, questioning how objects can carry histories of trauma, resistance, displacement and transformation.