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My Background

Personal Profile

​Hira Butt is a British Pakistani artist based in Birmingham, England. Born in 1987, Butt migrated to England from Lahore, Pakistan, after completing her Bachelor in Fine Arts in December 2009. Since then, Butt has worked on and off in different creative fields. In 2016, Butt got the opportunity to study Fine Arts and relished the chance; she stretched herself as an artist and completed her master in 2018 by winning the Master Degree Prize in Medium Practice, Birmingham City University

Education & Work

2017-2018

Masters in Fine arts  (Birmingham City University)

2016-2017

Diploma in Management and Leadership
NVQ Level 5

2005-2009

Bachelors in Fine Arts (Lahore College for Women University)

Aug 2015 - Oct 2021

Care co-ordinator/Weekend On-Call Coordinator (Plan-It-Home Care)

Feb 2019 - Current

​ Freelance Artist at Dream Wall Art (Wall Art Services)

2014 Oct- 2015 Sep

Teachers Assistant (Hall Green Secondary School)

2014 Oct - 2014 Dec

Studio Assistant (Snappy Snaps) 

2010

Design cards for 'Desibrations', the first company in UK that had permission to put Asian songs in musical cards.

2010 - 2014

Freelance Photographer for Moonlight Studio Photos and Videos, Birmingham, Uk.

2011

Freelance photography assistant with Manos Koukakic, Birmingham, UK

Exhibition
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Exhibitions

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2011

Young Artists Exhibition, MAC Birmingham.

2022

UNCERT_ Group Exhibition at Peepul Culture Centre, Leicester

2021

Solo Show, Re-thinking Dhee Kahani, Stryx, (currently showing)

2021

 Ikon at Selfridges Birmingham, To coincide with Osman Yousefzada’s installation at Selfridges Birmingham, Infinity Pattern 1, Ikon presents an associated off-site exhibition and art trail at the store.

May 2021

​ “Ikon for Artists”, Birmingham.

October 2020

“Thirteen Ways of Looking” at Herbert Gallery Coventry.

Feb 2020 - Ongoing

​Dhee Rani Part 2; project for Transforming Narratives, Birmingham and Lahore, Pakistan.

2019 (4th Oct - 24th Nov)

​The Twin; Coventry Biennial 2019, New west midlands Art 2019, Coventry

2019

August Schwarmerei Members Show, Ort Gallery.

 2019

Student Mid-Year Art Exhibition, Direct Art Action, Sutton Cold Field.

2018

Exhibition 175, Birmingham School of Art, Birmingham School of Art, Margaret Street, Birmingham.

2018

Turn Out, MA Show 2018, Birmingham School of Art, Margaret Street, Birmingham.

2017

 MA Exhibition at Birmingham School of Art, Margaret Street, Birmingham.

2013

Master of Art International, the Mile End Art Pavilion, London. (Selected by Margarita Feaks Gallery)

2009

Bachelors Thesis Work Display (Design& Visual Arts Department LCWU Lahore).

2008

​ Young Artists Exhibition, Al-Humara Lahore.
Freelance

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Awards-Residencies-Collaborations

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2022

​For the Commonwealth Games Creative City project, with a Queen Alexandra College Community Hub Women’s Peer Support and Social Group. Three months long Workshop series, Strength Strings in Collaboration with Stryxs and Magdalena Jasiak

2022

 IYP-Artist Workshop (June)

2022

Residency HARAMACY for COMMUN, London. (February and March)

2021

​Talk – Creative conversation with Female Artists of the Global Majority at York’s Café at Ikon

May 2020

Workshop Peep@Stryx with Styrx, Digbeth Birmingham.

May 2020

Workshop Peep@Stryx with Styrx, Digbeth Birmingham.

August 2019

Open Crit at Fail Better, LadyWood.

August 2019

Residency Sharing at Fail Better. LadyWood

August  2019

Digeth First Friday, Pithu Garam, Article for the exhibition, Stryx

2018

The Performance-Forest Labyrinth 2018, Collaborative Interactive Musical Exhibition,  Royal Birmingham Conservatoire.

2018

The Wig at Fail Better, Digbeth Birmingham.

Get in Touch

+44 7574 264930

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