Ask the Artist: Working with Sculpture & Large Installations
About this Event
About this event
In this informal artist talk, Rida Batool will present a screening of selected works followed by a conversational Q&A exploring her sculptural and installation practice.
The discussion will focus on absence as a form of presence, and how intangible experiences such as grief, memory, and emotional loss can actively shape narrative and meaning. Through her work, Rida explores how memories are not fixed but mouldable, continuously reshaped through the process of revisiting, reflection, and healing. The talk opens up a space to consider how absence, rather than being void, becomes a living structure through which we construct understanding, identity, and emotional resolution.
The artist
Rida Batool is a UK-based multidisciplinary artist and writer working across sculpture, installation, oil painting, video, and creative writing. She holds a Bachelors in Fine Arts from Punjab University College of Art and Design, Lahore, with a focus on sculpture, and a Masters in Creative Writing from Manchester Metropolitan University.
Her practice explores memory, grief, nostalgia, and the emotional traces left behind by personal and collective experiences. Her work often combines physical materials with storytelling and moving image, creating immersive spaces that reflect on absence, identity, mourning, and belonging.
Rida has exhibited work internationally across the UK, UAE, Pakistan, and Iran. Alongside her installation practice, she is currently interested in plein air painting and landscape studies, exploring atmosphere, memory, and emotion through natural environments.
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