Naseem Darbey

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Wild Boar Street: Unearthing the Lost Districts of Bradford

A year-long project uncovering the hidden stories of Bradford’s lost Wapping district through archaeology, nature, family history, drawing, textiles and making.
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Mona and the Moths

Mona and the Moths is a textile-based project exploring pollution, adaptation, and working-class history in Bradford. Inspired by my great-aunt Mona and the Peppered Moth, I create interactive wearable sculptures that respond to light and touch, inviting audiences into a poetic reflection on change, care, and place.
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Wild Uplands Wonderland

I am a socially engaged artist, working collaboratively with communities to co-create projects that connect people, place, and environment. This approach is at the heart of Wild Uplands Wonderland, it is through co-creation with the children and their schools that M19 Blanket Mire was born.
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DesignLab Nation

In 2024, I worked as the lead artist on a DesignLab Nation project at Cliffe Castle Museum in Bradford. DesignLab Nation is part of the Victoria and Albert Museum’s (V&A) National Schools Programme, which connects schools with museums and creative professionals to inspire the next generation of designers and makers.
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Drawing Breath

To 'take a breath’ describes a physiological process and a moment of pause or meditation. Our breath connects us to the world; it provides the rhythm of life.
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The drawing box project

launched in 2020 by myself and Gemma Hobbs, as part of our work with Keighley Creative. Funded by an Arts Council England Emergency Grant during the Covid-19 crisis, the project was designed to support communities while testing and launching Keighley Creative’s new branding and communications strategy.
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We are saved by loss

We are descendants of the stars. Cosmic dust is an eternal element of the body’s cyclical decay and renewal. We are constant process, not complete products. We are Tertullian’s apologeticus where ‘dead starts come to life’ and ‘everything is refashioned out of death’.
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Wake the warrior

Wake the Warrior is a sculpture inspired by the Staffordshire Hoard, the remarkable 7th-century Anglo-Saxon treasure discovered in 2009.
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Between the lines

Through my hollow drawings, I aim to create a revelatory experience of a life that feels both present and elusive..

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Study Skins

Study Skins is a project I embarked on in 2009 that represents a significant evolution in my artistic journey. This series marks the transition from my earlier 2D drawings into what I now call my 3D hollow drawings.
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