House of Bandits at Roche Bobois

From Shirin's series 'Heart Throbs'

2015 

Archival print

Framed, Edition of 5

36 x 29 cm

Made to Order, Please Allow 1 -2 Weeks for Printing

In ‘Heart Throbs’ Shirin explores gender representation and cultural exchange between Europe and Iran as inspired by 19th century Qajar paintings. Beauty standards at the time diverged from the modern gendered convention, with men wearing makeup and women fixing side-burns to their face. Using her face as a stage, she embodies the archetype of Amrad (the adolescent male), Amradnuma (the adult male) and Fukuli (the male who mimics the look of the European dandy) in these visually striking portraits.

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2025

Sugar, royal icing on wood

50 x 45 cm

Semi-domesticated Poodle is a mosaic made of hand-cut sugar glass. Alongside her sugar work, a reactive poodle came into the artist’s life, deemed ‘the worst dog in 40 years’ by canine behaviourists. Using reimagined artifact and drawing on historical narratives Lloyd playfully questions where our behavioural instincts come from. She often likens her process to taming a wild animal as the sugar’s reactive quality can produce unpredictable, tragic, and unexpectantly beautiful effects. Her mosaic Semi-domesticated Poodle is a painstaking piecing together of fragile material, full of behind-the-scene failures as an ode to the artist’s dog and the unlikely bond between them.

Sophie makes expressive and stylised sugar sculptures. With fixed open mouths, candy colours and sickly sweet material, these figures evoke both gluttony and the uncanny.

Care instructions:

This piece is made from sugar and therefore sensitive to its environment and any reactions taking place aligns with the intentions of the work. To maximise its lifetime, avoid sources of heat and humid environments. This artwork contains lead and so should not be eaten despite its sugar content. Always wash hands after handling this work and gloves are recommended. It should not be handled by children.

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Ink on hand-made cotton rag paper 

56 cm diameter 

In a circular frame, anti-reflective UV glass

Stephen’s work is led by reflection from his environments; the people around him, their relationships and shared experience. Frequently exploring themes of nature, community, and ritual, he uses a variety of inks on paper to hand-paint his flowers on Indian cotton rag paper.

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2024

Original artwork, hand painted using a variety of inks on paper. 

62 cm diameter (including frame) Framed with anti-reflective, museum quality glass.

Stephen’s work is led by reflecting on his environments; the people around him, their relationships and shared experience. Frequently exploring themes of nature, community, and ritual, he uses a variety of inks on paper to create his intricate paintings that celebrate the beauty, uniqueness and vitality of flowers.

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2024 

40.2 x 60 cm

Graphite on Paper, in custom metal frame 

Original graphite pencil drawing on watercolour paper in a custom metal frame 1/1

Tom adopts and subverts traditional drawing techniques using graphite and charcoal to create tonal contrasts that reveal the intricate details of his uncanny figures. ‘Gloom’ depicts a solitary figure sat in an empty space loosely holding a flower, creating a visual tactility with his bold tonal variations.

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2023

Brass and silver spoon 

63 x 9 x 5 cm

In Cutleries, the artist collects antique cutleries and deconstructs them by dividing each piece and soldering them with a hammered brass rod. As a migrant navigating through various landscapes and cultures, the aroma of food from home serves as a nostalgic anchor for the artist, evoking memories and connections across time and space. This personal journey inspired the creation of Cutleries series, to bridge the gap between past and present, memory and taste.

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2023

Brass and silver spoons

63 x 20 x 6 cm

In Cutleries, the artist collects antique cutleries and deconstructs them by dividing each piece and soldering them with a hammered brass rod. As a migrant navigating through various landscapes and cultures, the aroma of food from home serves as a nostalgic anchor for the artist, evoking memories and connections across time and space. This personal journey inspired the creation of Cutleries series, to bridge the gap between past and present, memory and taste.

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2023

Brass and silver spoon

62 x 1 x 3 cm

In Cutleries, the artist collects antique cutleries and deconstructs them by dividing each piece and soldering them with a hammered brass rod. As a migrant navigating through various landscapes and cultures, the aroma of food from home serves as a nostalgic anchor for the artist, evoking memories and connections across time and space. This personal journey inspired the creation of Cutleries series, to bridge the gap between past and present, memory and taste.

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2025

Alabaster, brass

15 cm x 9 cm x 8 cm 

The Pears series began with A Pear is not a Pair, a stone sculpture with a silver spoon stem that explored cultural symbolism within the artist’s heritage. In Chinese culture, sharing a pear is considered symbolic of separation, due to the homophonic link between “pear” (梨) and “separate” (离). The use of stone embodies the impossibility of sharing, while the silver spoon stem visually invites it, creating a quiet contradiction.

This year, as members of the artist’s family began living in different countries, the work evolved. By cutting the pear into halves, she echoes the current distance and shifting relationships within her family, turning the sculpture into both a marker of separation and a gesture of togetherness.

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