Artist:Estabrak
Pronouns: She/Her
A collector of skills, Estabrak’s an award-winning cross-disciplinary artist, filmmaker, facilitator and researcher committed to experimentation, inclusivity and a participatory arts practice.
Biography
Named one of “five incredible underwater artists” by the BBC, for the past seven years, Estabrak’s works have explored the intersections between human behaviour, water and our environments; centring racial, social, humanitarian and climate justice. Her process often references the external global and internal individual connectivity to each other, and of water.
Multi-sensory in approach, she uses live techniques, film, projection, sound, performance, paint, installation, (underwater) photography, sculpture, words and public participation to help highlight and dismantle ignored sociopolitical realities.
Water and beauty are tools for Estabrak to honestly focus on relational themes of love, trauma and belonging, whilst inviting community engagement to navigate the ever-evolving and ephemeral human condition. Often prioritising the process of making not just the outcome.
Based in London and working internationally, she is originally from Iraq, born in exile in Iran and raised in London, after having come to the UK with her family as a child refugee.
Estabrak has showcased on an international basis in such places as New York, Dubai and Berlin, along the way exhibiting at the Royal Academy of Arts, & Tate Britain. She has been supported by agencies including; the Wellcome Trust, Arts Council England, Unlimited, Invisible Dust, Bagri Foundation, Red Bull and the Ocean Global Foundation. Her work has also been presented to the UN.
Image Credit: Self-Portrait
Image Description: Artwork: A red and white watercolour of a face with heavy eyebrows, a small neat moustache and long loose flowing hair. The eyes are very pale, as if possibly not there.