Born in Iran and based in England since 1985, Batool Showghi’s practice is a poetic, visual autobiography. Using a sewing machine needle as her drawing tool, she translates the turbulence of immigration and the disintegration of family into layered textile works and artist’s books. Colourful cloth fragments from Iranian scarves or offcuts from Japanese kimonos are sewn and layered with lineal black stitches, creating female figures, sometimes surrounded by handwritten Farsi poetry.
Her latest series, created in response to the recent uprising of Iranian women, focuses on the Struggle and Rise of Women – shown as part of paper | scissors | thread, a duo exhibition with Charlotte Hodes at jaggedart.
