Leila Dear is a British-Iranian artist and educator whose multidisciplinary practice looks at ways of engaging with the structures of the natural world. Often working with geometric techniques from the Islamic tradition and elemental phenomena such as pure vibration, she explores commonalities between art and science and ideas of a beyond human, natural, intelligence.
Grounded in a research practice that reads science fiction alongside scripture, feminist histories, cybernetics, and design science, her work seeks to cultivate an embodied understanding of nature’s patterns, kinship, and transcendence of individual perspective.
Channel is Somerset House’s new curated online space for art, ideas and the artistic process.
