Golnaz fathi biography channel

Golnaz Fathi was born in and lives and works in Tehran. She studied Graphic Design at Azad University in Tehran.

Golnaz Fathi’s work explores the potential for overlap and exchange between the quite separate domains of modernist abstraction and classical Persian calligraphy.

She is remarkable for being one of only a handful of women trained to the highest levels of traditional Persian calligraphy. When, her talents once recognised, Fathi was eventually invited to join the inner sanctum of the prestigious Iranian Calligraphy Association—an exclusively masculine institution—she chose instead to follow her dream and define herself as a contemporary artist.

Fathi’s rigorous calligraphic training—six hours practice per day over many years—thereafter became a fertile source of her inventive explorations of the art of inscribing meaning by using extemporised forms akin to writing.

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