HANEEN HADIY
(She/Her)
Born in Glasgow to Iraqi parents, Haneen Hadiy is an interdisciplinary artist working across sculpture, painting, photography, ceramics, and installation. Her practice explores themes of migration, memory, ecology, and cultural identity through the symbolism and material presence of the palm.
Working between Scotland and Iraq, Hadiy draws upon natural materials, archive, landscape, and Arabic language to reflect on ideas of displacement, belonging, and cultural continuity. Her work is informed by site responsive research and an ongoing interest in the emotional and historical traces carried within materials and environments.
Influenced by Iraqi modernism, ecological thought, and contemporary material practices, her work considers how memory and identity can exist across shifting geographies, creating quiet dialogues between landscape, material, and inheritance.
BETWEEN TWO PALMS
Between Two Palms brings together a series of works that reflect on the quiet relationships between landscape, movement, and cultural memory. Moving across sculpture, natural materials and text, the exhibition considers the palm as a form that exists between geographies — simultaneously rooted and displaced.
The exhibition draws attention to subtle connections between Iraq and Scotland, where materials, images, and forms begin to mirror one another across distance. Through fragile surfaces, suspended elements, and organic remains, the works explore ideas of endurance, adaptation, and the traces carried through migration.
Rather than presenting fixed narratives, Between Two Palms creates a space for reflection on what is inherited, translated, and transformed through time, place, and material presence.
