Amina Begum Ahmed
Advisor

Born in East Africa, of Kutchi-Indian Turkiq and Nubian heritage, Amina Ahmed grew up in England and has lived in Iran and the USA. She specialized in Visual Islamic and Traditional Arts at The Royal College of Art (1991).

Amina Ahmed practices geometry, her work continually referencing folk art and 'geometry in nature'. She explores the landscape between the heart, the tree, the mind, rhythm, and pattern, with inter-connective-ness. Amina’s practice of geometry grounds her drawings, and praxis is the primordial artery through which she strives to practically return—physically, symbolically, and spiritually. “I seek to remember who we are...to be whole and learn how we are part of this universal language,” she says. “The outward process, the practice of making, the alchemy of preparation of materials and arriving at, is an inward journey.” Amina’s work explores intertextuality as a transposition of elements into a field of remembering. This field of transmission carries various relations of displacement as well as processes of transition and transformation. She is a forest walker.  

Color, an eternal companion, parallels time's constancy–simultaneously veiling and revealing the shapes that form reality. It is a layered guide between presence and absence, each shade concealing another beneath its surface, and yet, when we stand before its form, we are met with primordial language.

In the embrace of indigenous folk tradition, color and shape are not just seen but lived and embodied—an activation whereupon consciousness gazes upon itself in a different form. Color, in its infinite layering, unveils activity in the immutable, and passivity in the dynamic, all at once.