Exploring themes of identity and displacement through the writing of fiction, photography, print and performance
Babayan explores diasporan identity through painting, photography, print and multidisciplinary works. Her current project Swallows and Armenians includes a book of short stories, Wild Pansy Press (2019), an audiobook, a theatre script, a performance with Young Company based on stories from the book, an exhibition tour and a short film.
Exhibitions
Selected solo exhibitions
2021 Swallows and Armenians, The Queens Hall, Hexham, Northumberland
2020 Swallows and Armenians Carlisle Contemporary Arts Gallery & Parquet Gallery,The Old Fire Station, Carlisle, Cumbria& Newbiggin Maritime Centre, Newbiggin-by-the-Sea, Northumberland
2019 Swallows and Armenians, Theatre by the Lake, Keswick, Cumbria, The Guardian and The Times
2017 Swallows and Armenians, Thorney How, Grasmere, Cumbria, Westmorland Gazette
2014 PAGES: archive and office, stationary and document, The Tetley Centre for Contemporary Art, Leeds
2010 Space, Place & Identity, Leeds Beckett University, Broadcasting Place
2002 Objects of Desire, The Hutchinson Art Gallery, Bishop Auckland
1997 Kookoo, The Elizabethan Gallery, Wakefield & Hardware Gallery, London
1996 Lavashak and Other Stories: Huddersfield Art Gallery
Artworks
artist’s books – books of fiction – film – performance – oil on canvas – gouache – lino-cut – relief print – heat-press – screen print – photography – digital print on aluminium – stained glass – architectural design commissions – conceptual works
News
Swallows and Armenians
Swallows and Armenians – the book is now available to buy at £10 plus p&p here The book was launched on the 9th March with an article in The Guardian and a great photo in The Times. The project received an Arts Council England award and the book launch at Theatre...