Farkhondeh Ahmadzadeh is an Iranian artist based in London. Her work explores the disciplines of Persian poetry manuscripts, sacred geometry and Persian miniatures. She has lived a rich and adventurous life and has worked both as an academic and artist in Iran, America and Europe. For the last 20 years, Farkhondeh has regularly spent time living and studying under calligraphy masters in Iran. She was awarded the Jerwood prize in 2011 for Islamic traditional art and continues to teach Islamic manuscript and Persian miniature at the Princes School of Traditional Art. Her body of work on Haft Paykar, the epic poem of Nizami has been exhibited in London in 2016 and in Scotland in 2017. Her painting showing the stages of Reza Abbasi’s “ seated man” is on permanent display at Albukary gallery, British Museum.
Sean Naghibi is a London based web/graphic designer and print specialist who runs a small digital design outfit “Today Design”, with particular interest in history and advertising. He is the curator of 'Souvenirs From The Past', a diverse array of advertisements that graced Iranian media over five transformative decades. From the dawn of modern advertising in the late 1920s, covering 50 years until the late 1970s. This collection highlights the evolution of marketing strategies, artistic trends, and cultural narratives that defined a nation. His talk will cover the history of Iranian advertising and how it follows trends of the society, the era and people's spending power.
