Alinah Azadeh is an artist, writer, performer and cultural activist of British Iranian heritage. She uses text, textile, audio, and live practices to create poetic narratives that activate spaces, amplifying untold or overlooked stories. As well as installation commissions for major museums and galleries over the last 30 years nationally and internationally, Azadeh has had stories, poetry and articles published, most recently The Beard in Glimpse, a speculative fiction anthology edited by Leone Ross – republished in Best British Short Stories 2023 (Salt Publishing, October 2023).
Alinah is inaugural writer-in-residence at Seven Sisters Country Park & Sussex Heritage Coast, commissioned by the South Downs National Park Authority. She is lead artist on We Hear You Now, a new spoken word audio and walking journey around the Sussex Heritage Coast by a cohort of Sussex-based writers of colour; they explore contemporary issues for the rural landscape such as belonging, climate change, biodiversity, legacies of empire, loss and renewal using new poetry, speculative fiction and new myth. These audio pieces are embedded in 14 Listening Points across the landscape – and online – until 2028. This series arose out of We See You Now (2020-22), a decolonial creative writing and walking programme with creatives of colour. Both are funded by Arts Council England.
Alinah also presents for broadcast, and has a podcast, The Colour of Chalk. She is completing her artist memoir and working on outdoor commissions and publications.
www.sevensisters.org.uk/we-hear-you-now
Watch We Hear You Now tasters film
insta: @alinahazadeh
Films of work on vimeo
