About the artist

Nastaran Mazloumi was born in Tehran, Iran and migrated to Australia in 2012. She is an illustrator who is fascinated with colours and searching for visual meanings and symbols as means of expressions. She tends to apply mixed media to create imaginative, thought provoking pieces by using strong and bold colours. She mainly use watercolour, gauche, coloured pencil and marker, which provide a unique surface quality to her work. She also designs her ideas digitally in Procreate software. Her main focus is on women, racial issues, migration and her personal emotions.