Zainab B. Sheikh
About
Zainab Sheikh is an interdisciplinary artist based in London with a fine arts background and a specialisation in artist moving image. Her work revolves around matters concerning the intangible: time, nostalgia, and the metaphysical. Materialising the immaterial through mark making, fiber art, moving image and installation.
Her practice seeks to shed light and spark dialogue around what is often hidden in the shadows, matters of representation, broken roots, and histories warped or left untold. While moving along the thin strand between reality and the metaphysical, exploring the liminal spaces in which we can become suspended. Through this, she creates spaces to gather and connect; to see and be seen, not only here in the physical realm but also in the veiled places where memory, spirit, and dream converge.
Guided by an innate curiosity toward the unseen, her practice serves as a way of translating what hums beneath the surface of reason. Her films engage satire as a mode of inquiry, while her sculptures solidify the residue of the ephemeral. By allowing memory, belief, emotion, and experience to intertwine, she constructs quiet encounters that linger in the bittersweet spaces between knowing and feeling. She examines how the physical can bear the weight of what is felt and fleeting. Her process balances creation and contemplation, allowing matter itself to disclose the murmurs of memory, leaving traces that resonate, persist, and invite reflection long after the encounter has ended.
Zainab Sheikh is an interdisciplinary artist based in London with a fine arts background and a specialisation in artist moving image. Her work revolves around matters concerning the intangible: time, nostalgia, and the metaphysical. Materialising the immaterial through mark making, fiber art, moving image and installation.
Her practice seeks to shed light and spark dialogue around what is often hidden in the shadows, matters of representation, broken roots, and histories warped or left untold. While moving along the thin strand between reality and the metaphysical, exploring the liminal spaces in which we can become suspended. Through this, she creates spaces to gather and connect; to see and be seen, not only here in the physical realm but also in the veiled places where memory, spirit, and dream converge.
Guided by an innate curiosity toward the unseen, her practice serves as a way of translating what hums beneath the surface of reason. Her films engage satire as a mode of inquiry, while her sculptures solidify the residue of the ephemeral. By allowing memory, belief, emotion, and experience to intertwine, she constructs quiet encounters that linger in the bittersweet spaces between knowing and feeling. She examines how the physical can bear the weight of what is felt and fleeting. Her process balances creation and contemplation, allowing matter itself to disclose the murmurs of memory, leaving traces that resonate, persist, and invite reflection long after the encounter has ended.
Exhibition List
2025
Praxis, Umbrella Art Collective, Cardiff
2024
And it was all pink, Helch Market, Bournemouth.
Fine Art Graduate Exhibition, Northlight Studios, Bournemouth
2022
Fair Play,The Bournemouth Little Theatre, Bournemouth
Smoke and Mirrors, Arts University Bournemouth,
2021
need a name here, Morley College, Kensington and Chelsea
Education
2021-2024 Fine Art BA (Hons), Arts University Bournemouth
2020-2021 UAL Foundation Diploma in Art & Design, Morley College, Kensington and Chelsea.
2018-2020 A Levels in Art & Design, Texiles and Sociology, Brentford School for Girls.
2025
Praxis, Umbrella Art Collective, Cardiff
2024
And it was all pink, Helch Market, Bournemouth.
Fine Art Graduate Exhibition, Northlight Studios, Bournemouth
2022
Fair Play,The Bournemouth Little Theatre, Bournemouth
Smoke and Mirrors, Arts University Bournemouth,
2021
need a name here, Morley College, Kensington and Chelsea
Education
2021-2024 Fine Art BA (Hons), Arts University Bournemouth
2020-2021 UAL Foundation Diploma in Art & Design, Morley College, Kensington and Chelsea.
2018-2020 A Levels in Art & Design, Texiles and Sociology, Brentford School for Girls.