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Noorain Inam (@phoolsunga) is a London-based painter and wood carver. She grew up in Karachi, where she learned carving by watching her uncle, a skilled carpenter, before training as a miniature painter. A teacher once had her paint the same chair every day for six months, and she has seen objects as shapes ever since. “Once you remove the identity of the object, it’s much easier to immerse yourself in it.” Her paintings, often set inside frames she carves herself, collect fragments from her own life alongside Greek mythology, especially Dionysus, the god of theatre, and the way performance can turn ordinary reality into something closer to a dream. Her titles read like lines from an internal monologue, they “allow an entry point into paintings but there’s room for people to project their own experiences onto the image.” She has two solo shows coming up, one later this year at Slip House in New York and one early next year at Falmouth University in Cornwall.

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Arts & Design contributor for @newinculture. From paintings, to mixed media, clothing and design, architecture, photography, film, and experimental work; I’ll be highlighting art in all aspects. Researching and reading about different work has been inspiring to say the least, you can read more at Newinculture.com ★

!! Thank you @newinculture
#newinculture #artisttalk

The inner child that’s always with us.
On Artist Noorain Inam

Carved landscapes of obscurity, ink, and wood.
On Sculptor John Buck

To be as fragile as the canvas itself.
On Artist Helena Minginowicz

Architectural admiration through precision and light.
On Photographer Thibaud Poirier

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Noorain Inam interviewed by Yasmin Alrabiei for Wepresent by WeTransfer.

‘Then there is Amparo Dávila, the late Mexican writer whose stories transform ordinary interiors into psychologically charged places of dread. Like Dávila, Inam locates the uncanny and supernatural within the corners of the world most familiar to us: our homes.

This sensibility feeds directly into her paintings. “I see them as trap doors,” she explains, “places of strange emotional suspension that belong to everyone and no one.” The recurring motifs in Inam’s work remain supple and shifting, like characters with unique personalities that integrate new traits and abandon old ones.

Horses, she says, represent “emotional volatility, freedom, fear, fragility and movement.” Even during her miniature training, her eye was drawn to their rendering. She spent time around horses as a child and found something “oddly contemplative” in them. “They mirror energy very well and can pick up on someone’s calmness or fear,” she says. “I’m interested in that.” Nature entered Inam’s work through what she calls her “quarterly disappearing acts.” She retreats into silence, often through residencies, to let thinking happen. “It’s you, your studio and the thoughts that keep you up at night,” she says, “but there’s something really comforting about that silence.” An artist once told her she seemed to thrive on tumult. “But it’s kind of the opposite,” she says. “I get my ideas when I’m away from noise, and I’ll live with them. Sometimes for years.”’

Read full interview through link in bio!

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we stopped by diaphanous at indigo+madder

bringing together 8 artists exploring identity belonging and the feeling of home

let me explain!

you can find more exhibitions like this on the CUR8 app!!

#LondonExhibition #ContemporaryArt #LondonArtScene #FreeExhibition #CUR8

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What’s a question you’re asking yourself rn?

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Basel this summer🇨🇭

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Diaphanous reviewed in Canvas by Leila Lebreton.

Final week. Last chance to see the exhibition!

We are open this week from 11-6 pm Thursday - Saturday

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Liste Art Fair
Basel, June 2026

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“I read somewhere once that the first decade of your life is pure experience, and everything after that is you spending time analysing said experience,” says Pakistani-Sindhi artist Noorain Inam @phoolsunga

Her canvases are dense with symbolic motifs—horses mid-rear, fires consuming domestic interiors, chairs suspended in fluid landscapes. Noorain’s paintings exist to capture the space where childhood fears, memories and dreams linger, tracing the ways they continue to shape our adult lives.

“I don’t really trust nostalgia. Our minds have a way of warping our sense of perspective, especially when we’re younger.”

Story continues- link in bio 🔗
words: @yasmin.alra 💜

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Thanks to everyone who visited our booth at Liste!

Thank you for the mentions in the Observer by @elisartgal
@monopolmagazin & @letemps.ch
The booth is also featured in Art Viewer

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Art Basel 2026 Round Up ✨ With various talks, events, social media collaborations, chats with collectors and art lovers, and more… this week was one for the books.

Swipe to see the round up of my week, sprinkled with personal highlights, sunsets, food, and of course, a LOT of art.

Below are all the artists and associated galleries featured in the post.

> Ada Bond @ada___bond with Mara Projects @mara_projects (<3 @lisjatershana), seen at Basel Social Club @basel.social.club

> Zana Masombuka @ndebelesuperhero with October Gallery @octobergallerylondon, seen at Africa Basel @africabasel

> Reece Cox @reece.cox with Oxford Berlin @oxfordberlin, seen at Basel Social Club

> Elleanna Chapman @elleannac with Teaspoon Projects @teaspoonprojects (<3 @gigisurel_), seen at Basel Social Club

> Rose Ras @_roseras with VIN VIN @vinvinvienna, seen at LISTE @liste_art_fair_basel

> Sarah Bogner @phoenix_asteroids with Livie Gallery @liviegallery, seen at LISTE

> Noorain Inam @phoolsunga with Indigo+Madder @indigoplusmadder, seen at LISTE

> Pierre Huyghe at Fondation Beyeler @fondationbeyeler

> Jana Schröder @janarrrrrrrrrrrrr with Alfonsoartiaco @alfonsoartiacogallery, seen at Art Basel @artbasel

> Hayal Pozanti @hayalpozanti with Jessica Silverman @jessicasilvermangallery, seen at Art Basel

> Chloe Wise @chloewise_ at Kulturstiftung Basel H. Geiger @kbhgeiger

> Nicole-Antonia Spagnola @theporcamadonna with Felix Gaudlitz @felixgaudlitz, seen at Art Basel

and of course, the @baselartsummercamp 🤗✨

#ArtBasel #BaselSwitzerland #ArtFair #ContemporaryArt #WorkingInArt

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Final day of Liste!

Booth 13
Monday 15 – Sunday 21 June 2026
Liste Art Fair Basel
Messe Basel, Hall 1.1
Maulbeerstrasse / Riehenring 113
CH–4058 Basel
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Noorain Inam
A small game of hide and seek, 2026
Oil on linen
165 x 195 cm

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