NEW V&A ACQUISITION
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
I am very proud to announce that the Safe Space series has been acquired in its entirety by the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
It is on display in the V&A’s Jameel gallery, South Kensington
Thread Memory; Palestinian Embrodoidery
Victoria & Albert Museum, Dundee.
26 June 2025 - 30 March 2026
My Installation of Kiass is currently on show at the V&A (Dundee) as part of Thread Memory exhibition which look at the power of Tatreez and traditions of craft in [Palestinian] resistance and preservation of collective histories across our region.
PEER x Hackney Circle
Spring- Summer 2025
Over the course of 5 months, I ran workshops that explore themes of oral history, family, and disability through art to create this collective story quilt.
Refugee Week 2025
Hackney Community Quilt
These quilts were created during Refugee Week 2025 in celebration of the theme: Community as a Superpower.
Each square was hand-stitched by people taking part in weekly groups at the Round Chapel Old School Rooms, in response to my question: _”What does community mean to you?”_
I invited groups to reflect on the ways we find connection, care, and solidarity — and to creatively express these ideas using fabric and thread.
The resulting squares capture conversations sparked by shared meals, communal spaces, crafting together, drinking tea, feeling welcome and known, raising children, and finding kinship in our neighbourhoods and networks.
These quilts are on permanent display at the Roundchapel, Clapton, E5.
A Love Song for Whitechapel
Public Artwork Commission
London Borough of Tower Hamlets
2024/2025
‘A Love Song for Whitechapel’ is the title of my upcoming public artwork commission for Whitechapel.
It draws from the intergenerational insights of local groups within Whitechapel, from which I will collectively plot a social history of the East End and map their shared roots in Whitechapel.
The final artwork, commissioned by Tower Hamlets Council and curated and produced by UP Projects, will be a light focused piece that presents local history in a contemporary setting, and is set to be installed on Whitechapel High Street later this year.
BOOK PUBLICATION
Highly Strung
2022
Upcoming launch of 365 limited edition copies in large format of my latest large scale installation Highly Strung. For more information or to reserve your copy, please contact a member of the Athr team.
Highly Strung is a durational body of work, which explores notions of motherhood, domesticity, and the invisibility of a woman’s labour. Produced over 365 days, Haidar made a record of an act of invisible labour she accomplished, one for every day of the year.
These mundane acts are the sum of her every day, as mother, wife, caregiver, and woman.
Each act has been carefully embroidered onto an item found within the home and presented, literally, Highly Strung on washing lines.
Haidar repositions the domestic space as a political site exploring its relationship to artistic work, repetition, care work, paid/unpaid, cleaning, parenting, and the working body.