Artist Basma al-Sharif will host a number of free, informal and supportive online advice sessions for artists on 16 July.
Advice Sessions (one hour in length) are for artists who are based in Scotland and are not in education, aimed at developing a wide-ranging dialogue around your practice.
Basma al-Sharif
Palestinian artist/filmmaker Basma al-Sharif explores cyclical political histories and conflicts. In films and installations that move backward and forward in history, between place and non-place, she confronts the legacy of colonialism through satirical, immersive, and lyrical works.
Al-Sharif received an MFA from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2007, was a resident of the Fondazione Antonio Ratti in 2009, the Pavillon Neuflize OBC at the Palais de Tokyo in 2014 – 15. She received a Jury prize at the Sharjah Biennial in 2009, was awarded a Visual Arts of the Fundación Botín in 2010, Mophradat’s Consortium Commissions in 2018, she was a fellow of the Berlin Artistic Research Grant Programme for 2022 – 2023 and was nominated for the Prix Aware for 2024. In 2025 al-Sharif published her first monograph titled ‘Semi-Nomadic-Debt-Ridden-Bedouins’ and her film ‘Morgenkreis (Morning Circle)’ won the Grand Prize at the 39th Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur, the Best Documentary short at the Sharjah Film Paltform 8, and ARTWORKS Best FilmAward at the 14th Athens Avant-Garde Film Festival.
Major exhibitions include: ‘Colomboscope’, the Hannah Ryggen Triennial, the Gothenburg Biennial, Pompidou Metz, de Appel, the Museum of the Art Institute of Chicago, MOMA, CCA Glasgow, SALT Galata, the Whitney Biennial, ‘Here and Elsewhere’ at the New Museum, Berlin Documentary Forum, and Manifesta 8. Her films have screened in the international film festivals of Locarno, Toronto, Berlin, Mar del Plata, Milan, London, New York, Montreal, and Yamagata amongst others. Basma is based in Berlin and represented by Galerie Imane Farés in Paris.
What can an advice session cover?
We have some suggestions of areas that the meeting could focus on, but you are welcome to have a more open discussion if you aren’t sure where to start, or are feeling uncertain about how to gain clarity or momentum within your practice. For example, an advice session could involve:
Talking over some possible next steps for a project/work in development
Sustaining and developing your practice and networks
Production and project development
Thinking about appropriate research
Discussing the direction your work is taking more broadly
Dates and Times
Two advice sessions with Basma are available on Thursday 16 July:
10am – 11am
11.30am – 12.30pm
Images descriptions:
1. A group of women sitting on the ground outdoors against a white building with blue, young children amongst them, all looking forlorn and disinterested. A yellow subtitle at the bottom with the word “BOREDOM”
2. A young child sitting in the lap of a young daycare teacher who is looking away. The young child is looking back and towards something we can’t see and seems prepared to run away.
Closed Captions