Meet the Artist

Haleema Aziz is a Manchester-born multidisciplinary artist whose practice navigates the terrain of migration, displacement and belonging. Drawing on both personal memory and collective histories, her work explores how we carry places within us—even when we leave them—and how new places shape us in turn.

Working across oil painting, woodwork, ceramics and reclaimed materials, Haleema’s studio is a site of transformation: where fragments of narrative merge with tactile form, where structure meets fluidity, and where the familiar and the foreign converse. She interviews heritage and home in each piece.

At the heart of her work lies the question: What does it mean to be “at home”? To belong? And what if the definition of “home” shifts as we move? Through layered surfaces, materials that retain traces of the past, and composition that holds tension between what has been left and what is becoming, Haleema offers visual space to reflect on journeys—geographical, familial, spiritual.

In recent series, textiles and reclaimed wood have acted as carriers of hidden histories—woven with gesture, colour and memory. The marks we leave, the places we travel to, the ones we depart from: all converge in works that hold both absence and presence.

Haleema’s work is shown in solo and group exhibitions, and she regularly accepts commissions (though note: currently fully booked). Beyond the studio, she collaborates with curators and educators to engage communities in conversation about migration, identity and belonging.