Diana was born and raised in Rusholme, Manchester in 1979 to Bangladeshi parents. She moved in 2001 to do her BA (Hons) in Fine Art at Nottingham Trent University and a Masters in Contemporary Fine Art Curating and Practice from Sheffield Hallam University.
Since graduating Diana has primarily been a visual artist. She has exhibited regionally in Nottingham at the Surface Gallery and View From Top Gallery. Nationally she has had work in the TINAG festival in London and The Site Gallery in Sheffield and a solo show at the Airspace Gallery in Hanley. Recently, she has exhibited work as part of the Roaming Biennial in Tehran and the Other Asia’s exhibition ‘ReDo Pakistan’ in Karachi, Pakistan.
Her medium involves painting, drawing, installation and text based work. She is interested in correspondence, networking and connectivity in her practice. Her text based work has featured in The Disarmory Newspaper in New York. Her work also plays with the subversion of the material and in her 2001 degree show her work, a table covered in jam entitled ‘Aftermath’ was featured on the BBC arts website. Most recently her line of investigation has steered towards working with artists from different countries in mass exchange and re-interpretation projects.
Her co-curatorial projects includes ‘Up & Coming’ at the Contemporary Urban Centre in Liverpool and the ‘Defamiliarization’ touring exhibition in London and Sheffield. Her recent solo curatorial work is an extension of her art practice exploring correspondence and international collaboration, the most recent being the touring ‘Subversive Correspondence’ in Bristol and London and 'Dialoges: A Fake Romance?' in South Wales. She is also the assistant curator for’Pop Samiti’, based in London which is an arts magazine exploring South Asian narratives.
In addition to being a visual artist and curator she has been lecturing in Fine Art for six years. She is also a freelance workshop leader for various schools and community venues and a tutor for the University of Warwick.
Current Employment
- Workshop Leader
- Workers Educational Association (WEA)- Family Learning
- Artist in Residence- Gedling School, All Saints Primary
- Open Studies Lecturer ‘Art Techniques from Different Cultures’.University of Warwick
- Creative Partnership- Holly Primary School ‘Interpreting African Art’
Connecting Classroom, a British Council Project.
- Art and Design Teacher. Nottingham Boys High School.
- Edexcel External Moderator for GCE Art & Design
- Transversal European Study Trip to Italy Smart education with art. Working with rural disadvantaged children.
Education
2010 MA Contemporary Fine Art: Curating & Practice
Sheffield Hallam University, UK.
2006 Cert Ed (PG)Derby University
2001 BA (Hons)Fine Art, Nottingham Trent University, UK
1998 BTEC Diploma Foundation Art & Design Manchester Metropolitan University, UK.
Professional Membership
Institute for Learning (IFL)