NEDA TAVALLAEE

Neda Tavallaee grew up in England up until the age of ten. Tavallaee returned to Persia after the revolution in the middle of the Iraq war with her family. This drastic change had major effect on the way she observed life as a child, and later a woman, in the Middle East. Creating under strict constrains, she submerged herself in Persian culture: poetry, music and wonderful miniatures. Coming from a region with a vast diversity of people and tribes, story telling through Tavallaee’s work has become a refuge for her.

Working across various media – but predominantly painting – her female-centric images shed light on women’s struggle to express and present themselves within society, tackling subjects that could be deemed as controversial and dangerous in her native Iran

Tavallaee lives in a garden in the Alborz province.