The countdown is on ⏰ #newexhibition
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Ghafar Tajmohammad: If you throw a stone in the crowd, someone’s going to get hurt | From Sat 13 Sep
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We begin September, presenting our visitors with a thought-provoking collection of paintings and hand-woven rugs, known as kilims, that reflect on conflict, home, and the search for hope and resilience.
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By combining painting, hand-woven rugs, and lived experiences, Ghafar’s work responds to the ongoing global turmoil and its impact.
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@ghaf.tm draws on his own experience of displacement as a British Afghan, while also turning outward to wider struggles and shared hopes.
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This exhibition is co-commissioned and presented as part of the Platforma Festival (October 2025), produced by Counterpoints Arts.
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📸 Image credits: 1. Father hold my hand by Ghafar Tajmohammad. Courtesy of the artist 2. Borderings by Ghafar Tajmohammad. Courtesy of the artist
Commissioned to create a co-participatory installation as a loom.
Images from the private view of @inodyssey2025 An absolute delight to see audiences engage with weaving and open my practice up to the public.
Last week to take part in this as the exhibition ends this Sunday.
#artinstallations #weavingart #loom
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Pleased to have been able to make new work for this wonderful ongoing exhibition @inodyssey2025 . The curators, @gozde_altun_@bengu and @muratbalcci were so lovely to work with and I’m thankful for being invited to take part and respond to the creative concept.
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Room Lit By An Open Door, Series, 2025
Each 36cm x 42cm
Three handwoven kilim rugs using cotton yarn with acrylic paint.
This triptych of painted handwoven textiles, using kilim techniques, presents a sequence of abstract geometric compositions of interior and exterior spaces. Each panel suggests a stage of domestic setting, whilst light passes through the panels, seemingly on a journey, gesturing toward departure and arrival simultaneously.
The work draws visual inspiration from the flattened perspective of Persian miniature painting and the spatial framing devices of Francis Bacon’s compositions. Conceptually, Room Lit by an Open Door explores the artist’s personalised interpretation of the idea of third spaces—drawing from Homi K. Bhabha’s political discourse of hybrid identity.
Join us for a relaxed, hands-on workshop with artist Ghafar Tajmohammad, exploring creativity, heritage, and collective making through rug-making.
Saturday 7 June 2025
2:00- 4:00 pm
Campbell Works, N16 6UN
Free and open to all
⚡️Event link in bio
Ghafar will loosely guide participants through the process, sharing the cultural meanings behind traditional Afghan rug patterns, inviting you to play, experiment, and weave your own story into the fabric.
#Inodyssey2025 #GhafarTajmohammad #RugMakingWorkshop #AfghanDiaspora #ArtAndHeritage #FreeEventsLondon
Ghafar Tajmohammad, a London-based British Afghan artist who works across painting and rug making. Through culturally rich patterns and stories of migration, Ghaf explores home, belonging, and the Afghan diaspora experience.
GHAFAR TAJMOHAMMAD @ghaf.tm
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• Inodyssey
• PV 5th June 2025 (Thursday-6-9pm)
• 6th June - 22nd June (Thurs-Sun 12-6pm)
• Campbell Works, N16 6UN
#art #artist #artexibition #contemporaryart #londonart #london #contemporaryartist #textileart
A memorable moment for me, talking alongside British Museum Curator for the Middle East, Dr Zeina, on Afghan War Rugs and my artistic response to the topic last Friday.
#britishmuseum #afghanwarrugs #artisttalk #warrugsbritishmuseum
28th March - Talking at the British Museum on my artistic response to Afghan War Rugs.
In-conversation event alongside the curator of the BM’s War rugs exhibtion, small audience of 30 seats, tickets can be booked on link in bio.
#artisttalk #artevent #britishmuseum #Afghanistan #warrugs
Lucky to have been commissioned to write for @bmyoungpeople for their Hew Locke blog.
I chose Drawings for the Imperial Shamiana. Have a read if you fancy - link in bio.
Never felt fully confident in my writing, not my strong point, so even a small opportunity like this means a lot. Thank you!
#britishmuseum #Youthcollective #hewlockeexhibition #blog #writing
Ending the year with some new work! ‘Water Safer Than Land’
80 by 90 cm, handwoven pile rug, using natural dyed Afghan wool and British synthetic dyed wool.
Thanks to @susieolczak curator of Raft @roslarts where this work is part of.
#handwovenrugs #textileart #moquette
It’s been our absolute pleasure to host British Afghan artist, @ghaf.tm this past week and his exhibition “Broken Mother Tongue” featuring a series of his handwoven rugs.
Alongside the exhibition, Ghafar has carried out a hand-weaving workshop and live demonstrations of his artistic practices, as well as giving further insight into his rug-based exhibition.
It notably explores the fragmented and fractured nature of the Afghan Diaspora in the UK through the visual language of Islamic Geometric Patterns. These patterns are individualised and personified as separate shapes departing from their typical unity in tessellating patterns. Distinguished by their various Moquette designs taken from public transport seats in London, each shape is set against a backdrop of a camouflage pattern, symbolising the themes of conflict, resettlement, and integration within this migrant community.
