Artist
Leila Dear
A British-Iranian artist and educator, whose practice explores commonalities between art and science and ideas of a beyond human, natural, intelligence.
Dear's multidisciplinary practice looks at ways of engaging with the structures of the natural world, often working with geometric techniques from the Islamic tradition and elemental phenomena such as pure vibration. Her work is grounded in a research practice that reads science fiction alongside scripture, feminist histories, cybernetics, and design science, her work seeks to cultivate an embodied understanding of nature’s patterns, kinship, and transcendence of individual perspective.
Dear was a recipient of the Jerwood Somerset House Studios Residency, supported by the Jerwood Developing Artists Fund.
