Morvarid Alavifard
Morvarid is an Iranian multidisciplinary precious metal artist based in the UK, specialising in silversmithing. Rooted in her lived experience as an Iranian woman, her practice explores how objects carry memory, emotion, and resistance.
She approaches metal as both material and language, using traditional processes to question value, permanence, and control. Central to her work is the belief that destruction can be a form of creation. She translates internal and collective experiences into physical form, reflecting survival, adaptation, and transformation through reworking inherited craft techniques.
Morvarid exhibits nationally and internationally, with recent work at Fold Community, Puyuan Binnelie Contemporary Jewellery in China. She received a Silver Fellowship at Yorkshire Artspace, won the Jane Goodman Award at Bishopsland, and earned an MA from the Royal College of Art.
Instagram: @mor.alavifard
Website: https://www.morvaridalavifard.com/