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Introducing Raha Farazmand, Ingram Prize 2026 Finalist

Eruption Meltdown and Sugar Rush, 2025, Oil on linen.

Raha Farazmand, born in Tehran, lives and works in London. She completed The Drawing Year at the Royal Drawing School in 2022 and qualified as an architect in 2017 having studied at the Architectural Association, London & Yazd University, Iran.

Farazmand’s works have been exhibited both in the UK and internationally, including No Show Space London (Solo-2025) Metamorphika London (Solo-2024), Christie’s in London (2022), The Royal Drawing School (2022, 2025), the Sydney Architecture Festival in Australia (2019), the London Festival of Architecture (2017), The Architectural Association (2017), and the Winterpalais Belvedere Museum in Vienna (2015).

Raha says: “’Eruption Meltdown and Sugar Rush’ brings geological and bodily form into a compressed, unstable space. Oil paint is built through thick and thin layers, dragged and brushed across the canvas, allowing forms to emerge and dissolve within the surface. The painting uses the physical weight and viscosity of oil to create a shifting spatial structure, where scale, depth and bodily presence remain uncertain and continuously transform.

My paintings begin with photographs from my family archive. For these paintings, the photographs are from my family’s life in Iran during the 1980s. Alongside these images, I draw on historical photographs and visual material from the same period, considering the wider events and conditions unfolding at the time the family photographs were made. I am interested in the distance between the intimate scale of the family photograph and the larger historical forces that surround it.”

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Images courtesy of the artist.

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More install shots from Shining Land.

Please DM me or @the_fayre for a catalogue of still available works from the show.

Images featured here:
1 Hattie Landells, Double Take, oil on panel, 2025
3 Orlando Seale, Misty Harpy, Acrylic, watercolour, pastel and pencil on card, 2025;
Soul Baraitser, Knees up!, Pastel on Himalayan Paper, 2025;
Freya Croissant, Cut from the same tree, Watercolour, pigment & oil paint on calico, 2025-6;
Alix Philippe, Strong Premonition, Pigments and acrylic on linen, 2026
4 Hattie Landells, Our Lady of The Stones, oil on linen, 2026
5 Freya Croissant, Cut from the same tree
7 Hattie Landells, Mizmaze at Sunrise, oil and marble dust on panel, 2025
8 Raha farazmand, Feedback Loops 2, Oil pastel on etched paper, 2025;
Rose Shuckburgh, Moonlight, Fired ceramic (crank clay, earth sediment slip, glaze), 2024
10 Alix Philippe, Lost in the Drift, Pigments and acrylic on linen, 2026 (L)
11 Luc Pommet, Sign IV, Acrylic, oil and casein on canvas, 2023
12 Rose Shuckburgh, Glimpse, Monoprint on paper, 2025
14 Alix Philippe, Dream, Pigments and acrylic on linen, 2022
15 Luc Pommet, Stele, Oil, gouache, plants, varnish and paper on canvas, 2023
16 Soul Baraitser, Child and Heron, monoprint, 2025
17 Cecil Collins, Dawn, graphite on paper, 1976
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(Photos 4, 18, 20 by @nickpumphreyphoto)

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Thank you to everyone who took the time to visit our exhibition ‘Shining Land’ at @thefayre, a group show in west Cornwall with a wonderful group of artists I felt very humbled to be working with and showing alongside.

Such gratitude to @rahazmand @roseshuckburgh @lucpommet @soulbaraitser @alixphilippe @freyacroissant and @orlandoseale for letting me bring your magical works to the end of the land.

My deepest thanks to @thefayre especially @pollybathsheba and @harrietbayliss and everyone else involved for having me and for this experience which I have learnt so much from.

@emma.arrindell thank you for your curatorial expertise and bringing your killer eye and huge heart to help me. @zsubidu for the life changing food and immensely peaceful energy 🙏

Finally back in the studio soon… in the meantime reflecting on my time in West Penwith, catching up on teaching and planning to paint a large shell to crawl into for a while to sleep. 🐚

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This year’s open house art show in The White Room, Shining Land, is curated by artist Hattie Landells.

The show’s title comes from the ancient Greek name for the region, Belerion, ‘the shining land’.

‘I like the idea that this landscape is so storied, so myth-laden and carries so much history, that it has started to emit light. Light that rebounds in the watery surrounds of the peninsula, dazzling and disorienting.
The works coming to the show depict figures, forms and landscapes emerging as if from the haze of a vision, or a mirage, or someone else’s memory. Many feature celestial or elemental bodies, and I feel, carry something shared and recurring or timeless.
The earth is thinking and the stone, water and oil of paint and pencil is too.

I feel so grateful to be entrusted with bringing drawings and paintings to Faraway House by this immensely talented group of artists.’

The show will be open Friday and Saturday 10am - 4pm. With the opening evening on Thursday 30th April , 5pm - 7pm

Work in poster is Strong Premonition by @alixphilippeartist

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Geneva 2019 >> Behind the scenes of the behind-the-scenes of the Morning Glory (2017-) >> @rahazmand & Davis Vassallo

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MS8 Residue: Fragments in Traverse, led by new staff member Raha Farazmand

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Media Studies Vol.10 has launched. Over the next week we'll be sharing information from all 19 sections, including introductions for five new staff members!

Keep reading.

Image: Sol LeWitt, “Folded Paper” (1971)

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end of summer @rahazmand 💚

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It's the last few days to view 'The Centre Never Held' by Raha Farazmand at No Show Space

Exhibition documentation is online

Raha will be @noshowspace on the closing day, Saturday 19 July, if you'd like to meet her and view the work in person

Images L to R:

The Centre Never Held, 2025
Oil on Canvas, 185 x 135 cm

Post-Production, 2025
Oil on Canvas, 60 x 42 cm
Cow Down, 2025
Oil on Canvas, 60 x 46 cm

Eruption, Meltdown and Sugar Rush, 2025
Oil on Linen, 70 x 50 cm
A Fable Without Furniture, 2025
Oil on Canvas, 70 x 60 cm

Non-transcendentally Figurative 3, 2025
Non-transcendentally Figurative 2, 2025
Non-transcendentally Figurative 1, 2025
All Soft Pastel on Pastelmat 24 x 30 cm

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Raha Farazmand's show The Centre Never Held continues at No Show Space until July 19th.

Eruption, Meltdown and Sugar Rush, 2025
Oil on Linen
70 x 50 cm

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