Image from ‘One of the good ones’ exhibition installation. Image by ©Thasnim Hussein
Book your place here, ticket price (£5 + £1.13 processing fee) includes a copy of Shahwar’s publication. Please collect at the event.
Join writer, researcher, and artist Durre Shahwar for the launch of her new publication, ‘One of The Good Ones’ on Thursday 23rd April, 18:00-20.00pm.
DurreShahwar will bein conversation with artist Freya Dooley.
The publication expands and accompanies Durre’s first solo exhibition, ‘One of The Good Ones’, which was exhibited at Ffotogallery from January – February 2026 and presented a series of photographs responding to the gallery’s archive. Drawing on the artist’s own experience of seeking sanctuary, this body of work reflects on how documentation, objects, and symbolism take on different meanings under the threat of erasure and how seemingly ordinary objects become fraught when faced with loss and (dis)placement. Meanwhile, autofictional layering of text and images offer a counterarchive and capture the process of deliberating, (re)constructing an identity, and challenging how power is assigned.
Part autofiction, essay, poetic prose, reflection, this publication forms part of the exhibition and Durre’s larger body of interdisciplinary work and research.
Tickets are £5, you can purchase your ticket here. Ticket price includes a copy of the publication - please collect at the end of the event.
About Durre Shahwar:
Dr Durre Shahwar is a writer, researcher, and artist with a PhD in autofiction and Pakistani-Welsh identity from Cardiff University where she is an Associate Tutor. She was the recipient of a Future Wales Fellowship, researching climate justice through art, the visual outcome of which was exhibited at Glynn Vivian Art Gallery. Her film and visual work have also been exhibited and screened widely, including Chapter Arts, Migration Matters Festival, G39, The Turner House Gallery, Green Man Festival, Arts & Heritage. Durre’s work uses decolonised creative practices to amplify marginalised narratives. She is the co-editor of Gathering: Women of Colour on Nature (404 Ink). In 2022, Durre was highly commended for the Morley Lit Prize.
Book your place here, ticket price (£5 + £1.13 processing fee) includes a copy of Shahwar’s publication. Please collect at the event.
* This event is supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund *