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It’s been a week since I got back from Venice and looking back, my last week was kinda emotional

I spent the first two weeks feeling very anxious and overwhelmed with all the free time I had, spent the third week being sick and by the final week I was trying to squish all the experiences I had missed out on 😭 I learned so much about myself and I’m so grateful for the time I spent away and the people I met (especially the people). Our group was so kind, advocated for me so many times, checked up on me, made me dinner when I was sick. I wouldn’t have survived without the trustttt meeee. Love you guys so so much 🥹❣️

I can’t say just how much it meant to me to be able to go away for one month and focus on me and my work. Thank you @londonmetuni & @britisharts

So much more to come out of this trip but for now Arriverdverci Veneziaaa

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I am so so so ecstatic and honoured (but insanely upset) to have completed my 2026 Venice Fellowship at the British Pavilion, in partnership with the British Council and Ulster Presents, both of which I cannot thank enough for this incredible opportunity :-)

I was surrounded by the kindest people, both group 5 and m+b studio, whose conversations I will miss so dearly, and who made Lubaina Himid's installation all the more delightful to invigilate for <3 (I am going to be dreaming of Himid's colour palette and Magda Stawarska's soundscape in my sleep)

If you are in Belfast and are not able to attend the Biennale, Predicting History: Testing Translations, will be touring the UK and arrive at The MAC in 2027. This will coincide with a special group show that I will be curating in collaboration with Camille Serisier and Catriona Anderson at Platform Arts, you don't want to miss either!!!

[Pre warning that I will be spamming my story with the overwhelming amount of pavillions I got to see because I could not even attempt to fit them all in one post]

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MA FINE ART SHOW 2026
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Be sure to visit the brilliant MA Fine Art Show before it closes.

Last day of show • Monday 14th Sept 10-4pm.

Dont miss this thought provoking show!

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AHMED UMER

MA Fine Art Show 2026
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Rule, Rules, Ruled

Rules are instruments of power. They shape what can be said, recorded and recognised through ordinary structures: lines to write within, forms to complete, desks to sit behind and spaces in which to wait.

This installation considers how bureaucracy becomes part of everyday life through materials and environments that are easy to overlook. It asks who creates the systems that define what is visible, official or legitimate and whose labour, language and compliance keep those systems in place. These works consider the colonial histories within these systems and what becomes possible when their structures are exposed.

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Week One of working at the Venice Biennale!

It’s been a week of getting lost, being caught off guard by the weather and meeting the locals (the cats)! Feeling grateful to be spending a month immersed in all things art.

All these images were taken at the Giardini della Biennale site, apart from Keith Haring’s Barking Dog and the cat in Aqua Alta bookstore.

The Pavilions featured are the British Pavilion (of course!), the Japanese Pavilion, the French Pavilion, the Greek Pavilion, the Brazilian Pavilion and the Nordic Pavilion.

From my personal archive, August 2026.

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"SEEN POORLY" vol. 2

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《GOOD NEWS》
Ahmed Umer Farooqi from MA Fine Art Farnham will be starting the Venice Biennale Fellowship next week for one month!! Exciting times ahead for @thatahmed
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You can see his work with the rest of the PG grads in the UCA MA Shows at Farnham Campus.
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Opening Thursday 3 Sept 5-7pm until Mon 14 Sept 10-4pm ( closed weekends)
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Scroll through photos including his presentation during the MA Fine Art Symposium and work in 'Enclosure', currently on show with the rest of the group at Leith Hill Place.
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@thebritishacademy
@venice.art.biennale
@ucafarnhamart
@uca_galleries
@unicreativearts
@leithhillplacent

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Another influence to MA Fine Art work is 'Field Study' at @aliceholtforest , an exploratory opportunity to respond to the forest context. Enabling new ways of working to emerge, pressing questions about artmaking can be challenged in contingent ways. Within only 4-5hours, works are made, unmade, collected, manifest and documented: collaborative happenings and play become propositions for future work.
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Using only the contents of their rucksack and fallen materials from the site, works are raw, collaborative, exciting, suprising, shared and discussed over a packed lunch and an informal outdoor crit at the end of the day!!
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Highlights....
1-2. Dimal Madushanka: sculptural balancing acts
3-4. Maddox Pratt: selfportrait forest cyanotypes
5-6. Lakshay Ujjainwal: painting the forest floor
7-8. Ami Ellis: demarcations & tree topographies
9-10: James Lord: drawing shadows & found flora
11-12. Nilaksh Ujjainwal: paint masks & verticals
13-14: Pooja Rajashekaramurthy: Flotsam food
15-16: Ahmed Umer Farooqi: Collaborations
17-18: Group photos

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We spent a very full day seeing a lot of art during an MA/MFA Fine Art London gallery trip earlier in the summer. Really inspiring to visit @thecosmichouse to see 'All that Changes You: Metamorphosis'' by @isaacjulien . Beautifully mesmerising, the film becomes part of this space. Great to see so much brilliant work, thanks to them for our wonderful visit!
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Its always interesting to see how it influences everyone's work. Join us for the MA Fine Art show to see their new work opening on Thurs 3rd Sept 5-7pm until Mon 14 Sept. ⚡️⚡️
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Some highlights from our trip....
1-3. Isaac Julien, The Cosmic House
4-5. @harold_offeh at @theshowroomlondon
Huge thanks to the director for our insightful talk!
6-7.@kenpricestudio_official at @lisson_gallery
8. Work from @project88_international
9. @oliverbeerartist at @thaddaeusropac
10. @mandyelsayegh at @thaddaeusropac
11. Roni Horn at @hauserandwirth
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@mafineartucafarnham
#mafineart
#contemporaryartists
#emergingartists
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Getting ready for our MA Fine Art Show opening on Thurs 3 Sept 5-7pm.
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See some image details of artworks being finished in the Fine Art studios this week by:
@thatahmed
@jameslordart
@pooja_rajashekar28
@artshay__
@_nilaksh._
@dima_a_r_t_z
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Working across sculpture, film, painting, print, installation and drawing, this dynamic group of artists have made an exciting series of new works for our upcoming show at Farnham campus.

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Artist Spotlight — Ahmed Umer
Presenting work as part of ENCLOSURE at Leith Hill Place — a contemporary art exhibition drawing on the history of land, community and protest.

Ahmed Umer is a visual artist and curator from Pakistan, currently pursuing an MA at UCA. His practice explores space, architecture, and urban transformation through installation, often using trompe-l'œil strategies to blur perception and engage viewers as active participants.

🖼 Untitled (The Earth Diggers) Intaglio and embossing on Somerset paper, dust collected from site

This series of landscape prints appears, at first, calm and familiar — pastoral imagery of fields, tree lines, open horizons. Yet beneath the surface lies a quieter narrative of disruption and control. Created through a reversed intaglio process, the prints contain subtle embossed forms: construction machinery, barriers, warning signs, disturbed ground — visible only through shifts of light and shadow.

As viewers move in front of the work, the surface shifts between visibility and concealment, unsettling the initial impression of an undisturbed landscape. This approach reflects the historical process of enclosure, through which shared land was transformed into private property, leaving lasting yet often overlooked traces in the environment. Inviting viewers to reconsider landscapes not as passive or timeless, but as sites shaped by ongoing forces of intervention, regulation, and change.

ENCLOSURE is on display until 27th September
@thatahmed @mafineartucafarnham @surreyhillsnt

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✨Itwaar Bazaar - A Pop-up Experiment✨

Featured Artists: Ahmed Umar
@thatahmed

Featured Works:

We Begin by Measuring (IV)
Oil and Pencils on Wood (MDF)
16” x 17”
2026

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