About

Tami is an Edinburgh-based artist and art psychotherapist who received her BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University, School of the Arts in Qatar, in 2023, and her MSc in Art Psychotherapy from Queen Margaret University in 2025. Tami’s work has been exhibited in Phantasmal Galleries’ (UK) “Another Uncanny Exhibition” exhibition in 2023, as well as Wusum Galleries’ (Qatar) inaugural exhibition, “Revolving Rooms” in 2024. Lastly she has exhibited her work in the “Odysseys Through the Storm” exhibition at Out of the Blue Drill Hall (Scotland) in 2025. Tami has also been credited on a collaborative piece in Sophia Al Marias's “INVISIBLE LABOURS’ solo exhibition in 2023.

The main subject of Tami’s work is conceptualising her experience with mental health and sociopolitical movements such as feminism. The themes they tend to work with the most are catharsis, emotion, sexuality, and trauma. By making art, they learn more about themselves and how to accept or co-exist with their thoughts. Tami’s art-making process consists of using journal entries, poems she has written, song lyrics or fragments from their conversations to visualise a narrative that they can later manifest as artwork, as well as drawing inspiration from her Iranian and Palestinian background. They enjoy using poetic and metaphorical language to create compositions or settings that evoke unsettling images that leave traces and a sense of balance on the edge of recognition and imagination. They also like to play with elements such as symbolism to maintain her art's private and personal nature, while still being able to create and express herself without boundaries. Tami creates work that appears nightmare-like and distorted, allowing it to maintain its sacred and healing purpose without revealing too much of the intimate nature of her art.