Six Yards

Hold This

Padma

Dark Places

Get Me

Between us and other

Between us and other traces the story of my maternal Iraqi Jewish ancestors, through displacement, assimilation and cultural reinvention.

Leaving Baghdad in the 1800s along the trade routes of Southeast and South Asia, they joined established Arab Jewish communities trading predominantly natural materials for the global textile industry. They became deeply embedded in British colonial trade systems and based themselves in Calcutta, from where my grandfather's business operated. Assimilating totally and willingly to British customs and way of life, after Partition they emigrated to post-war London.

Living now here in the Scottish Highlands with my own family, I have been exploring what it means to have fragmented and mixed heritage and still feel belonging to a place. My research has uncovered unexpected connections between my family's past and the story of this landscape.

I have brought together archives, family photographs, textiles, household linens and images of the surrounding environment. The combination of materials visually plays out the entanglement of intimate and imperial histories, holding rupture and connection together while observing how colonial legacies continue to shape our sense of identity and place.

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stills singapore

Get me

After witnessing systemic and persistent racism in the local school and quiet corners of this rural Highland community, I wondered what it is like to grow up here in the Scottish Highlands. How do young people see themselves in our wider social world and where do they find inspiration?

I visited willing collaborators in their homes and photographed them in their environment with their prized belongings, while getting to know them and their interests.

Behind the dominant media and narrow historical rhetoric, the young people I encounter paint a picture of openness and possibility in the region’s youth culture, resisting divisive narratives and redefining boundaries.

They are self-possessed, creative and critically engaged. Most affectingly, I found their ability to embrace multiple identities and find strength in their own difference bears well for a more inclusive future for our social landscape.

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Hold this

Racist language is hurled around the school bus in this rural community with careless abandon. It reflects generations of selective and exclusionary histories, written by privileged elites and implemented to maintain systems of power and control.

Highland lifting stones symbolise the rite of passage some young people are forced to navigate when forming their sense of self, absorbing and internalising how they’re seen and understood.

Combining stones, a child’s hands and the slurs they have received with archival photographs, quotes and postcards of the landscape and its people, these photomontages challenge the gatekeepers of belonging. Hold This asks who has the right to claim this land and who is left to carry the weight.

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GWW studio - master whitehead, in a sailor suit, on his rocking horse

GWW studio - mrs arnott with beach scene

GWW studio - the browns children on steps with cat

postcard - connected to scotland the land and its people

connected to scotland the land and its people

Tales in Six Yards

Tales in Six Yards is centred around the aching loss of a mother figure, illustrated by some of the garments she left behind.

Born in Bangladesh and buried in the Highlands, this collection of her sarees represents her burning absence here in the spaces that have become home - the land she barely knew and to which she is now forever tethered.

The vibrant silks make a proud statement of contrasts and perhaps more uncomfortably, of otherness in the surrounding landscape of muted tones and peat-tinted waters ….

Contemplating her life's journey and how she finally came to rest here, I continue to uncover a web of connecting stories that link her origins to this place through colonial networks of trade and history.

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PROFILE

Naomi is a visual artist living in the Scottish Highlands. In her work with photography and mixed media, she explores themes of identity, memory and belonging, through the stories carried by textiles, landscapes and archival materials. Her practice is rooted in collaboration, discovery and play.

EDUCATION

2024 – 2026 MA Photography (Distinction), Falmouth University
2017 Certificate in Photography, City Lit, London
1997 Diploma in Interior Design (Distinction), The Design School, London
1996 BA (Hons) History of Art & Spanish, University College London (UCL)

EXHIBITIONS | FEATURES | EVENTS

Oct2026 Perpetual Motion, An Lanntair, Stornoway, Highland
Oct2026 Knowledge in a Fractured World, University of Cambridge Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
Sep2026 Graduate Photography Online 2026, Source Magazine
Aug2026 Red | Black | Black | Red, Openspace, Grantown on Spey, Highland
Jun2026 Storylands: Rooted Presentation, Boat of Garten, Highland
Apr2026 Artefacts of a Future Past, Iona Gallery, Kingussie, Highland
Sep2025 North East Open Studios, Scotland
Jul2025 Landings Collective, Falmouth University
Nov2024 Stories, Glasgow Gallery of Photography
Aug2024 North East Open Studios, Scotland
Jul2024 Landings Collective, Hong Kong
Mar2020 I Used to be a Photography Student, City Lit, London

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Between Us and Other

Edition of 10 • Archival Pigment & Natural Stone

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