Adalet Garmiany, UK/Iraq
Adalet R. Garmiany is originally from Kurdistan/Iraq and is now resident in the UK. Adalet is an artist, performer and musician and is the director of ArtRole. In Kurdistan he was a lecturer of art at the Institute of Fine Art of Erbil, he was also involved as a Dervish Def (Kurdish drum) player, in a Qadri group, as well as a painter and sculptor, activities that influenced his current art practice.
In his performances, installations and sound work he uses elements from his culture in attempt to interpret cultural ideas from Kurdistan and the Middle East, into a western context, by using historical and religious ideas, such as Zoroastrian and Sophism. Adalet’s presentation is about his experience as a Middle Eastern artist in Europe, his acclimatisation as an artist to a new culture with new set boundaries and the effect it has had on its practice.