I’m a multidisciplinary artist working across performance, movement, music, writing and community, rooted in questions of identity and belonging — questions I came to through lived experience.
I moved to the UK at eleven, not yet speaking English. That experience of navigating different worlds has shaped how I see, create, and work. My heritage draws on the layered histories of West Asia — diaspora, displacement, holding multiple identities at once.
I’m also neurodivergent, still learning how that shapes my thinking and creative process.
Sufi philosophy and its embodied practice run through my work — shaping how I engage with others, both one to one and within community.
My work moves between the personal and the collective, trusting that honest, specific experience often speaks to something shared.
Sheelan زكي 