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Aphra Shemza is a London-based multimedia artist and curator. She is also co-founder of Art in Flux and Manager of the Estate of Anwar Jalal Shemza (her grandfather). Inspired by her grandfather, her work explores Modernism, her Islamic cultural heritage, sustainable practice and creating art for all. As an artist and activist, she finds ambitious ways to fuse methodologies from the past with new innovations in technology to imagine what the role of art could be in the future.
Shemza has recently been awarded an Arts Council England grant for her latest project Ocean Rise which leads on from her 2019 project called 'Solutions for a Sustainable Art Practice' where Shemza was awarded a DYCP grant to research sustainable materials. In 2018 she launched www.art-ology.co.uk, a peer resource for artists who wish to be mindful of their environmental impact. Her research on sustainability in media arts has been published by the Electronic Visual Arts conference and she has recently contributed an Eco Art chapter to Dorling Kindersley’s The Artist’s Toolkit which will be published later this year. Shemza exhibits and produces public commissions regularly with partners including V&A, National Gallery X, Canary Wharf Group and Save the Children. This year, Ocean Rise, a large mixed-reality public sculpture made from sustainable materials was commissioned for the Summer Lights Festival in Canary Wharf. |
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