Shireen Taweel

Shireen Taweel’s practice reflects a diasporic landscape of cross-cultural discourse around the construction of cultural heritage, knowledge, identity, and language. Taweel’s practice is a quiet and reflective oeuvre of sensorially immersive installations, that draws upon architecture, Islamic science, ritual, and speculative futures. Taweel is best known for her intricately hand pierced and engraved sculptures, crafted from sheets of copper, which fuse conceptual and contemporary practice with an innovative application of traditional artisan coppersmith techniques.

Selected Career Highlights

Participated in various residencies including Sydney Observatory, Powerhouse Museum (2022), Vermont Studio Centre, USA (2022) and Copper Tinsmith and Narce Association of Gaziantep, Turkey (2019)

Recipient of the Australian Council for the Arts Grant (2022, 2018, 2017), Highly Commended award for David Harold Tribe Sculpture Award, finalist for the Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize (2022), awarded the Parramatta Creative Fellowship Fund (2018), awarded the Arts and Culture Medal from Multicultural NSW (2018).