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OTHER

OTHER
& The Stories of Others
Pt.1 Survival

Aida Wilde x Nasty Gallery
“The Other cannot be contained.
& Those who try to, are gravely mistaken”.

Igniting Women’s History Month with Other…& Stories of Others, a culturally woven
occupancy of the entire ground floor with, shows, workshops, happenings, and other
things, Aida Wilde in collaboration with Nasty Gallery (London), opening March 6-9
at the Corner Space, 123 Bethnal Green Road, London, E2 7DG.
The Iranian-born, East London printmaker/educator, Aida Wilde, presents OTHER,
Pt.1 Survival, a new body of work exploring and questioning the experience of
always having to tick ‘the other’ box in forms and documents which run parallel with
her lived experiences since her family claimed political asylum fleeing the Iran/Iraq
war to the UK in the 80’s.
Feelings of identity purgatory, neither feeling like Wilde belongs here or back in the
Iranian community has left the artist questioning/abandoning herself, her being,
relationships and the purpose of her work.
The works comprise over 30, Black and White, handmade textile banners with
custom-designed poles, and are embellished with their commentary and
identification badges that provide further context, narrative, and understanding of
each piece of work.
Nasty Gallery is dedicated to empowering women in the arts, providing a platform
for diverse, underrepresented artists at every stage of their journey with a belief in
fostering an inclusive and safe environment where women can share their stories,
exhibit their work.
& The Stories of Others, within the Other exhibition, a homecoming for Aida Wilde,
unfolds as a happening within Nasty Gallery’s occupancy, featuring workshops, life
drawing, creative expression, artist’s surgeries, spoken word, and including a mental
health-focused session.
Running in tandem with OTHER, this 3-day residency explores themes of DIY,
resilience, and belonging, engaging participants in hands-on art practice and
ownership of uniting narratives that are deemed as Other.
Nasty Gallery brings together artists Paige Megan Hawley, CW Stubbs, Apparan,
Lior Hatt and Boa Swindler of Nasty Gallery alongside facilitating workshops,
will transform the space with their artworks and contributions from participants.

aidawilde.com
nastygallery.co.uk
@ aida_wilde
@_nastygallery

Supported by Formd.co.uk

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Jordan Taylor and Aida Wilde CLICK HERE

Aida Wilde /OTHER Pt.1 Survival
& The Stories of Others

Aida Wilde is an Iranian-born, London-based printmaker/visual artist, and educator.
Wilde’s diverse screen-printed indoor/outdoor installations & social commentary
artworks have been featured on city streets and galleries internationally as a response to
displacement, education, and equality. She’s also the founder of Print is Power and
Sisters in Print (2013-present) Aida was an associate lecturer and course director
(2004 – 2015) at the Surface Design and Foundation of Applied Arts at the London
College of Communication, of which she is also an alumna.
Wilde’s serigraphs have been widely exhibited, which include acquisitions by the
Victoria & Albert Museum and commission from the Fitzwilliam Museum for their
permanent collection. Other institutional shows in the Women’s Art Library,
Goldsmiths, Vienna’s Fine Art Academy, including curatorial capacity for the
exhibition & event programming for; 20/20 A Brief Survey for The Other Art Fair, LDN
(2021)
Her collaborative projects with CHOOSE LOVE were exhibited at Somerset House
and Saatchi Gallery as well as supporting the AUCTIONS for Terrence Higgins held
at Christie’s with her Fine Art Serigraphs.
In recent ambitious projects in 2020, Aida worked cross-cultural exhibition
disCONNECT, a collaborative project with Schoeni Projects and HK Walls with a
pandemic-related immersive installations which were exhibited in a South London
Victorian house and traveling to Hong Kong to be recreated in an old tenement
building later that year.
Aida has been an active artist within the Hackney Wick community for the last
sixteen years where she creates responsive works to the dramatic changes that are
happening in the area, also curating the Lord Napier project for Hackney Wicked as
well as the coinciding urban community exhibition Save Yourselves in October 2016.
www.aidawilde.com
IG: @aida_wilde /Print is Power
Print Shop: aidawilde.bigcartel.com

Nasty Gallery is dedicated to empowering women in the arts. It provides a platform
for underrepresented artists at every stage of their journey, from outsider artists,
recent graduates, mothers reigniting their creativity retired artists reclaiming their
narratives, and all the others in between. Committed to fostering an inclusive space,
we amplify voices, showcase diverse talents, and advocate for a future where
women’s contributions to art are seen, valued, and celebrated. Join us in pushing
boundaries, breaking barriers, and reshaping the art world.
As part of OTHER, a homecoming for Aida Wilde, & Stories of Others unfolds as a
happening within Nasty Gallery’s occupancy, featuring workshops, life drawing,
creative expression, artist’s surgeries, spoken word, music, and a mental health-focused
session.

Running in tandem with OTHER, this 3-day residency explores
themes of DIY, resilience, and belonging, engaging participants in hands-on art
practice and ownership of uniting narratives that are deemed as other.
www.nastygallery.co.uk
Paige Megan Hawley is a Photographer, Curator, and Activist. She was a key
founder of Nasty Women London and developed Nasty Gallery (London) 2023, as a
space dedicated to supporting women artists at all stages of their lives and creative
journeys. Driven by her own experience of sexual violence, Paige’s work is a call for
social change, giving voice to those who may otherwise go unheard.

Insta @paigemeganhawley
Insta @_nastygallery
www.paigemeganhawley.com

CW Stubbs is an artist, writer, and facilitator exploring mental health, identity, ethics,
and social change. Born in the UK and raised in Canada, their practice is shaped by
a background in digital media, art, social issues, and over a decade of work in
educational charities. Through storytelling and creative expression, Stubbs examines
how art can reframe narratives, foster connection, and challenge exclusion.

bsky.app/profile/cwstubbs.art
@cwstubbs23
Website: www.cwstubbs.art

Apparan is a London-based street artist, educator, and curator from the Canary
Islands. Her work explores gender empowerment and equality, featuring vibrant
murals of women. She co-founded Art House Project London, curating exhibitions
that merge house music with underground art. A member of international art
collectives like WOM Collective and is an organiser of the London International
Pasteup Festival, showcasing large-scale collage installations from artists worldwide.

Web: www.apparan.com
Insta: @apparan

Lior Hatt is a gay artist specializing in vibrant, figurative drawings of women and
queer bodies. Their work captures the soft strength of the feminine form, celebrating
bodies of all sizes in vivid, non-erotic depictions. Now part of Nasty Gallery, Lior
facilitates Life Drawing sessions that foster inclusive artistic expression for all.

Nude Ain’t Rude.
insta: @lior.vibefeeler.art

Boa Swindler is a London-based artist, curator, and feminist whose work initiates
power, persuasion, and everyday sexism through print and mixed media. Also known
as Debra Wilson, she co-founded, the curator and director of WW Gallery (2008–2015).
Post-WW, she has supported artists, through professional development surgeries.
Drawing from Dadaist techniques and visual puns, Swindler has exhibited nationally
and internationally for over 30 years, with works held in private collections worldwide,
as well as in the V&A Museum and The Factory Art Collection.

Insta: boaswindler.infogmail.com_x

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AIDA WILDE X UNCLE IWD 2023 #WomanLifeFreedom

WomanLifeFreedom

“Power Rarely Falls Within The Right Hands.”
In this powerful large-scale work to mark International Women’s Day, artist Aida Wilde
references her own experiences of displacement, loss and trauma – having fled Iran during
the war with Iraq with her mother and sisters in the 80’s- while connecting this with the
experiences of countless others.
“From our arms that have loved, lost and silenced, this is for ALL the mothers, sisters,
brothers and fathers around the world, who have suffered oppression, violence, injustices
and bloodshed. May our tears and suffering not be in vain. May we be united by peace in the
fight for justice.”

  • Aida Wilde.
    Wilde’s street-based triptych for IWD may be found on the walls of London, Bristol and
    Manchester, courtesy of UNCLE.
    Press Release:
    AIDA WILDE X UNCLE FOR INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY
    2023
    “Power rarely falls within the right hands.”

The Silence From The Veil, Aida Wilde 2023
Last week – in just the latest threat to the safety and human rights of Iranian girls and
women – hundreds of teenage girls were gassed in their classrooms in an apparent attempt
to obstruct their access to education. In this powerful large-scale work to mark International
Women’s Day, visual artist and printmaker Aida Wilde references her own experiences of
displacement, loss and trauma – having fled Iran during the war with Iraq with her mother
and sisters – whilst connecting this with the experiences of countless others.
In the foreground of Wilde’s wildposted triptych, the hands of her mother and younger
sister are raised in iconic gestures of resistance atop marble pedestals – on a monumental
magnitude often reserved for celebrating men’s histories. The bold text etched on the
plinths arrest the viewer by invoking a direct call to reflection and action – via slogans
reminiscent of Jenny Holzer’s iconic street-based work: “Power rarely falls within the right
hands”; “If you only knew how exhausting it is to be powered by rage”; “There can be no
Gods walking among us.”

Wilde’s older sister is the eminent Iranian poet Ziba Karbassi. Here, Wilde arms her sister’s
hand with a quill, connecting her own street-based public visual intervention to Karbassi’s
quiet – but no less powerful – poetic acts of resistance: “From everyone/ more than
everything/ From all/ More than everyone ever/ I believe in my own chest/ In the moment of
the bullet.” 1
The background to the work is densely woven with the names of just some of the thousands
of women and girls who have been murdered in the struggle against Iran’s oppressive
theocratic regime. 2 In acknowledgement of the uprising sparked in 2022 by the unlawful
death of Mahsa Amini, the names of Iran’s manifold victims of gender violence rain down
softly on Wilde’s plinths, and rise in a ghostly stream from the poppy fields at their base –
honouring and humanising the countless women and girls lost to this ongoing state-
sanctioned femicide.
The artist says, “This is the first time that I have incorporated all of my family in one piece of
artwork. From our arms that have loved, lost and silenced, this is for ALL the mothers, sisters,
brothers and fathers around the world, who have suffered oppression, violence, injustices
and bloodshed. May our tears and suffering not be in vain. May we be united by peace in the
fight for justice.”
Wilde’s street-based triptych can be found on the walls of the cities of London, Bristol and
Manchester for International Women’s Day, in collaboration with the original wildposting
company UNCLE and OllyStudio, with creative direction from Olly Walker and Susan Hansen.
Aida Wilde is an Iranian born, London-based printmaker/visual artist, and educator. Wilde’s
diverse screen-printed indoor/outdoor installations and social commentary artworks have
been featured on city streets and galleries around the world and are responsive works on
gentrification, education, and equality. Wilde’s academic career includes, associate lecturer,
course director and alumni, on the Surface Design and Foundation of Applied Arts at the
London College of Communication, University of the Arts (2004-2015). Aida’s serigraphs have
been exhibited nationally and internationally at institutions including, the Victoria & Albert
Museum, Women’s Art Library, Goldsmiths, Vienna’s Fine Art Academy, Somerset House, the
Fitzwilliam Museum, and Saatchi Gallery.

Relevant Socials and Hashtags
Aida Wilde:
@aida_wilde | aidawilde.com | info@aidaprints.com
UNCLE:
@uncle_insta | https://manfromuncle.info
OLLYSTUDIO:
@ollystudio| http://ollystudio.co.uk
1 Sigh. 15. Revolutionary by Ziba Karbassi. Translated by Ziba Karbassi and Nazlee Radboy
2 List courtesy of NCRI Women’s Committee.

EmbraceEquity #WomenLifeFreedom #MahsaAmini #womenshistorymonth2023

#iranrevolution #womenncri #aidawilde #zibakarbassi #printispower #uncle_insta

@aida_wilde @uncle_insta @ollystudio @suse.hansen #IWD2023 #WomanLifeFreedom

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Defaced! Money, Conflict, Protest

This new exhibition is the first of its kind to examine the interplay between money, power and dissent over the last 200 years – with a key strand of the show exploring the role of the individual in protesting for rights and representation.

From the radicals of the nineteenth and early twentieth century, like Thomas Spence and the Suffragettes, to current artists and activists, such as Aida Wilde and Hilary Powell, the works on display show how money has been used to promote social and economic equality or satirise those in power.

A range of striking objects in the exhibition reveal the multiple roles money played during conflict, whether it be in occupation or resistance, as tokens of memory and remembrance, created during siege or emergency, made for or by prisoners of war, or made in support of sectarian or political ideologies.

Contemporary artworks by Kennard, Phillipps, Banksy and JSG Boggs are contextualised against earlier works and reveal continuities in the targets of protest across time. More than a hundred visually striking objects, most of which have never been seen before, are juxtaposed with important loans from museums and private collections.

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Paper Dreams Workshop
12th November – Fitzwilliam Museum 

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New Art, New Perspectives: Currencies

Fitzwilliam Museum Podcast: LISTEN

In this episode, artist Aida Wilde discusses Dreamboat II, a tiny origami boat made from repurposed Syrian Banknotes. Dreamboat II was commissioned by The Fitzwilliam as part of its Currencies of Conflict and Exchange exhibition. Wilde discusses her desire to raise money and awareness for refugees, as well as her own experience as a survivor of political violence from Iran.

This series is supported by the Charlotte Bonham-Carter Trust.