Biography
Aya Haidar is a Lebanese-British artist based between London and the Gulf. Her practice works across textile, embroidery, installation and video, exploring themes of labour, migration, domesticity and political resistance through the specificity of handmade craft. Embroidery is not decorative in her work — it is a site of investigation, a medium whose relationship to women's history and to the domestic carries its own politics. She has exhibited at Tabari Artspace, the New Art Exchange in Nottingham, Bischoff Weiss Gallery in London, Cubitt Arts, and 198 Gallery. She was commissioned by Abu Dhabi Art for a work presented at Cromwell Place in London.