Based between Lahore and London, Irum Rahat’s painting practice is fundamentally anchored in the praxis of pictorial expression. She explores the notion of mundanity and its multifaceted reverberations in a culturally and personally significant way.

Rahat’s practice revolves around paintings of domestic spaces occupied by women, whilst disrupting capitalistic and patriarchal frameworks of the white male adventure narrative. She is currently based in London exploring her ideas of the familial and familiar through her fascination with expressive mark making and her bold use of colour, creating a dynamic visual vocabulary that speaks to the emotional complexity of her subject matter. Through her paintings, she reflects on intimacy, femininity, memory, space and building her own personal adventure narrative while working in London.

Born in Pakistan in 1996, Rahat completed her BA in painting from the National College of Arts, Lahore in 2019 and her MA in Fine Arts from Central Saint Martins in 2023.