Alia Gargum

Alia Gargum is a British-Libyan artist based in Newcastle who composes her work through critical and personal exploration of politics and culture, focusing on her heritage through diasporic means. Sculpture, paintings and installation elements are reorganised and transformed in an organic manner as part of the artistic process.

Alia primarily uses hand-treated steel and hand- manipulated paper to depict signifiers of her past through a contemporary lens. Alia’s work explores power dynamics that echo into personal relationships, with a focus on the history of Middle Eastern and North African region power structures. Themes of forced migration, exile and identity also converge her works.