Amr Alsirawan

Artist statement Amr practice moves through the unstable terrains of identity, displacement and cultural inheritance. Working across sculpture, installation, collage, performance, metal, textiles and wearable forms, he approaches materials as bodies, scarred, resilient and carrying ذاكرة (dhakīra: memory) that resists erasure. His work explores the thresholds of living between places, between languages and between the narratives imposed on him and those he chooses to rebuild.
As a Syrian artist living in Scotland, Amr works with the friction of belonging and unbelonging, the negotiations of visibility, the quiet labour of survival and the tension between stereotype and lived experience. His objects and installations disrupt linear narratives, holding personal and collective histories in fragmented, layered forms. Viewers are invited into these spaces of in-between to confront their own memories alongside his. Amr questions where art should exist. He often chooses non-traditional spaces in response to institutional limits, exploring how art circulates within communities, nightlife and everyday encounters. His projects resist clean categorisation. Materials shift, break and reassemble. Processes evolve through research, intuition and the demands of the concept.
Influenced by daily life, media and the energy of the club as a site of collective release, Amr positions his own presence, and at times his body, as part of the work. Visibility becomes a gesture of cultural resistance and a refusal to disappear. Through his practice, he builds spaces for reflection, disruption and gathering, insisting on narratives that are too often marginalised, misread or silenced.

Artist Bio

Amr (he/him) is a British Syrian-born artist based between Edinburgh and London. Born in Damascus in 1996, he moved to Cairo in 2013 to study Law, where he completed his first and second years before leaving in 2018. He later relocated to Edinburgh as a refugee through the UN Vulnerable Persons Resettlement Scheme. He is currently studying BA (Hons) Sculpture and Environmental Art at the Glasgow School of Art (2024–2026), following an HND in Contemporary Art Practice (2022–2024) and earlier qualifications in Art and Design and Fashion and Textiles at Edinburgh College.

In 2024, Amr was selected for the Mophradat Artists Fellowship and joined Take Me Somewhere Festival as an Assistant Producer, continuing to support the 2025 programme. He is the co-founder of Qiwa and Drip, platforms based in Glasgow and Edinburgh that support underground performance and music scenes. Alongside his visual practice, he works as a DJ and performer within Scotland’s underground club scene, with appearances at Edinburgh Art Festival, Jupiter Rising, Buzzcut, and Take Me Somewhere Festival, as well as venues including CCA Glasgow, Stereo, Sneaky Pete’s, Exit and Summerhall, and internationally across London, Brussels, and Berlin.

nstallation: Metal, wood, mixed media, fabric, light, sound.

336 × 285 × 183 cm. 2026

Sound: Composed and mixed by Majdolen

Prints: Mohammed Nammor, Kinda Ghannoum, Ranim Halaky and Aljumhuriya.net