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Shirin Tabeshfar

Biography

London based Iranian-British artist Shirin Tabeshfar has focused her work on the relationship between order and chaos. A painter whose canvases are often divided, she combines elements of symbolism, spirituality and a sense of time in her work.

Shirin was born in Tehran and studied at the Behzad school of Fine Art before she moved to the UK in 1977 where she studied combined art in Bristol and later studied for a BA in Graphic Design at Bath Academy of Art.

Shirin’s work often explores images of the past and clearly, years of patient and laborious research has moved her painting towards a simplification of forms to the extreme. Liberated almost from the subject, Shirin tries to challenge the world of forms. She attains a kind of abstraction both rigorous and poetic. 

From tableau to tableau we discover a change in the layout of her canvas, drips of paint sometimes fill the whole space. One’s gaze is lost in a maze of lines, all in a continuous composition, without edges or centre. Yet the layout of the lines keeps the impression of the order and the controlled gesture by the artist. 

“Shirin's art manages to keep its innate freshness, in a world of silent poetry.”

Afsaneh H.S Djavadi  — Art historian

Shirin’s paintings have been exhibited widely with shows at Josie Eastwood Art Gallery, the Cricket Fine Art Gallery, Gallerie 27 Concept, the Tabernacle Gallery, and the Fairfax Gallery, Highgate contemporary gallery and The Royal college of Art. 

Exhibitions

Group show Autumn Josie Eastwood gallery 2020
Group show Summer Josie Eastwood gallery 2019
Magic of Persia, Kamil Gallery, Monte Carlo 2018 
A Tale of Two Cities' organised by Magic of Persia was held by Christie's in Monaco and by Bonhams in LA in 2018.
Solo show Cricket Fine Art Chelsea 2018
Solo show Galerie 27 Concept Paris 2018
Magic of Persia Boham Los Angeles 2018
Magic of Persia, Kamil Gallery, Monte Carlo 2018 
Solo show Cricket Fine Art Chelsea 2018
Josie Eastwood Fine Art 2018
Galerie du Cygne St. Tropez solo show 2017
Galerie du Cygne St. Tropez solo show
Cricket Fine Art 2017
Josie Eastwood Fine Art 2017
Galerie du Cygne St. Tropez solo show
Josie Eastwood Fine Art 2016
Highgate contemporary Art 2015
Josie Eastwood Fine Art 2015
Galerie du Cygne St. Tropez solo show
Royal College of Arts 2014
Highgate contemporary Art 2014
Galerie du Cygne St. Tropez solo show 2014
Solo exhibition Cricket Fine Art 2013
Josie Eastwood Fine Art 2013
Galerie du Cygne St. Tropez solo 
Royal College of Arts 2012
Fairfax Gallery London 2009
Group Exhibition in Tabernacle Gallery London 1995”