Azadeh Hamzeii

Exhibition artist: Azadeh Hamzeii

4 December – 18 December 2021

97 Boundary Street, West End, Brisbane QLD

Curators: Kyle Weise and Reina Takeuchi

Azadeh Hamzeii presents new work commissioned by Metro Arts in association with 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art.

With a focus on the dialogues between the individual and the universal, Azadeh Hamzeii mines her personal history and cultural background as an Iranian based in Meanjin (Brisbane).

Hamzeii draws from a range of subjects and materials including votive offerings, beeswax, fishing hooks, her father’s old film negatives, and Keffiyeh, to investigate the localised significance of objects and the potential to elevate their meaning, creating a broader human narrative.

This exhibition is presented in 2021 at Metro Arts, in collaboration with 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art. Supported by City of Sydney and Create NSW

Azadeh Hamzeii: A Tool is a Tool was commissioned by 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art in collaboration with Metro Arts in 2020 for 4A Digital.

Artist Biography:

With a focus on the dialogues between the individual and the universal, Azadeh Hamzeii mines her personal history and cultural background as an Iranian based in Meanjin (Brisbane). Drawing from a range of subjects and materials including votive offerings, beeswax, fishing hooks, her father’s old film negatives and Keffiyeh, Hamzeii investigates the localised significance of objects and the potential to elevate their meaning, creating a broader human narrative. She is alumni of Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, held a Bachelor of Fine Arts majored in Interdisciplinary Sculpture Making and a Diploma of Photography from Tehran University, Fine Arts Department.

4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art is an initiative of the Asian Australian Artists Association Inc. We gratefully acknowledge the assistance of the Commonwealth Government through the Visual Art & Craft Strategy and the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body; the NSW Government through Arts NSW and the City of Sydney. CHAMPIONS; The Neilson Foundation. CHAMPIONS: The Neilson Foundation. PRINCIPAL PATRONS: Sue Acret & James Roth; Oranges and Sardines Foundation; The Sky Foundation; Ah Xian & Ma Li. PATRONS: Geoff Ainsworth AM; Edmund Capon OBE; AM; Daniel & Lyndell Droga; Richard Funston & Kiong Lee; Johnson Pilton Walker; The Keir Foundation; John Lam-Po-Tang Vicki Olsson Adrian Williams BENEFACTORS: Brooke & Stephen Aitken; AMP Foundation; Andrew Cameron; Julia Champtaloup and Andrew Rothery; CHROFI; Konfir Kabo; Lisa Paulsen; Penelope Seidler; AM; Lucy Hughes Turnbull AO; Dr Dick Quan; Dr John Yu AC. FRIENDS: Michael Alvisse; Professor Ien Ang; Michael Boston; Simon Chan Art Atrium; Dakota Managment; Maree and Andrew Di Pasquale; Barbara Flynn; Andrea Fraser; Michael Hobbs; Mabel Lee; Andrea Larkin; Susan Nathan; James Roland; Dr Gene R. Sherman AM; Brian Sherman AM; James Roland; Aaron Seeto and Jane Somerville; Becky Sparks; Maisy Stapleton; Ursula Sullivan + Joanna Strumpf; Abdullah M I Syed; Victoria Taylor; Rosie Wagstaff; Anna Waldmann; Sean Woon; Fung Yeh Lee and Ngar-yi Ho; John Young and Kate Mizrahi. PARTNERS: CAOA - Contemporary Arts Organisations Australia; AEGEUS; Art Monthly Australasia; D.A.M; Vault Magazine. 4A would like to acknowledge the Gadigal People of the Eora Nation, the traditional custodians of the land on which our Sydney gallery is situated. 4A pays respects to Elders past and present.