Friends of University Art and Music Graduate Art Prize 2022

Celebrating its tenth year, the FUAM Graduate Art Prize and Exhibition, supported by the Friends of University Art & Music (FUAM), rewards the artistic excellence of students completing BA studies in Art and Design and Fine Art at the University of Leeds in 2022.

The finalists are selected by an expert panel of judges.

The judges will return to choose the overall winner of the FUAM Graduate Art Prize 2022 later this year. This will be announced alongside the People's Choice winner. 

The judging panel comprises Professor Jeff Grabill (Deputy Vice-Chancellor: Student Education, University of Leeds), Marianna Tsionki (Curator, Leeds Arts University), and Karen Watson (Artistic Director, East Street Arts).

Revolving around a fictional women’s clothing retailer, The Misogynarmoire is a multidisciplinary installation that marries set building, photography, textiles, and marketing design to form an immersive 1960’s London high-street experience.

The garments are available in a range of colour and pattern preferences, as displayed in the supporting catalogue, each lending themselves to issues surrounding present-day misogyny.

My practice generally reflects on my relationship with tech and the digital environment, and communicates my perception of the increasingly technological world that we live in.

Using analogue methods – painting, drawing, and screen printing, the works oppose digital production and transfer elements from the virtual space into physical artefacts, including thoughts generated from its usage.

The concepts from which my work arises are a result of the identities I explore via a research-based approach in my practice; my religious identity as a young Muslim woman, my ethnic identity as a second generation British Pakistani, and my digital identity as a Gen Z  navigating the rapidly evolving technological landscape.

My work utilises the grotesque and the surreal to express uniquely female anxieties. Particularly, I focus on generational trauma and the terrors of the body.