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
Exhibitions
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
Awards-Residencies-Collaborations
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.