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Name:	Mehrangiz Modarres Tabatabaei
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Category:	Visual Artists and Painters
About Me:	I was born in the capital city of Iran – Tehran in 1967. My main interest was in painting since I was a little girl. I am familiar with Persian Calligraphy and its combination with painting in contemporary style. I have passed several courses in drawing, oil painting and watercolour, at art institutes and I am familiar with “miniature” too. I’ve experienced a variety of media and mixed media in the past years. Few individual and two group exhibitions were results of the above works and experience, which I had at Tehran. Due to strong inter relation between Persian art and literature; I decided to do higher education in Persian literature at BA level. I have also learnt two methods of Chinese painting known as “Gong bi” and “xie yi” when I was living at Shanghai, under supervision of a Chinese lecturer for two years. There have been two major events that influenced my art work in the past; the first was the Iran’s revolution and eight years of war and second one, travelling around the world for the last 18 years to understand diversity of cultures and arts. I came to Newcastle about four years ago and I started my work with Intercultural Arts (NECDAF) and PCS Company as visual artist. WORK EXPERIENCE Planning to run Persian/ English calligraphy exhibitions at North East in near future. • In training for Web design process (2012) • Design of digital flyer for Integration gates company.(2012) • Participation in surveying at Great North Museum for Book Marketing research. (2012) • Currently involved in a project known as “Flock” in collaboration with Zendeh ( a group theater) From Dec 2011. The first workshop was performed in regard with poetry at Sage. • Designing digital posters and flyers for Music Group “Crossing” in October. • Performing Calligraphy workshop at Windmill hill Community at Gateshead in September • Exhibition and workshops on Chinese painting and Persian calligraphy at North Tyneside Council in Aug. • Performance of art workshop at Kenton Park Community in July. • Performance of art workshop at Sangini (Bangladeshi centre) at Sunderland in July. • Performance of art workshop at Benwell primery school in July. • Some of my paintings were exhibited in groups of art works at Hatton Gallery in June – Aug. • Performance of Chinese painting and Persian calligraphy workshops for disabled groups at Durham Community in June. • In training for Photoshop Digital design (2010) Mar. 2011 – Apr. 2011 Visual Artist/Calligrapher/painter A series of Chinese painting and Persian calligraphy workshops carried out in line with exhibiting diversity of art work in 8 days in collaboration with MIN (Made in Newcastle) and IcA (Intercultural Arts). Performing 3 Persian/Arabic calligraphy workshops in collaboration with GemArts at following locations: • The moon, the stars – Faith project at Tyneside Women’s health – Gates head • Arabic calligraphy project at Discovery museum • International Festival of Culture – Routes into languages at Newcastle University Oct. 2010 – March. 2011 Visual Artist/Calligrapher/painter Tyne & Wear Museums On an occasional basis, I work for the museums, to offer teaching in calligraphy, helping with traveling exhibitions and working in the community and local community at North East. Aug. 2009 – Dec. 2010 Calligrapher / Painter Pakistan Cultural Society, Newcastle Involved in a project “Islamic Oral History” whereby local young people of different nationalities could attend a series of six workshops to learn calligraphy, making banners, creative writing, computer design and photography, culminating in a performance on 22nd October 2010, at the Central Library in the presence of the local MP and Councilors. Afterwards, this exhibition was taken to Gates head and South Shields. Produced three individual paintings, and two in collaboration with a Chinese calligrapher, and set these up in an exhibition which ran for two weeks in February 2010. July – Aug. 2010 Visual Artist Hatton Gallery, Newcastle University In conjunction with the exhibition of Persian Art organized by the British Museum, I was asked to run three workshops, the first for children to learn about Persian culture, including illumination, patterns and carpet design, and the latter two for adults to study Persian calligraphy. May 2009 – July 2009 Visual Artist Zendeh Theatre Company, Newcastle Working on the SEARCH project to design and make banners for the company to use in their productions; running a workshop to train young people to make traditional clay cylinders (as in the historical Cyrus cylinder) and to use cuneiform script on them.