Rezia Wahid
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Rezia Wahid MBE
, is an award-winning British
textile
artist of Bangladeshi
origin. Her work has been exhibited both in the United Kingdom
and abroad.
and arrived to the United Kingdom
at the age of 5. Her work mainly consists of inter-cultural threads, from her English upbringing and spiritual Islamic influences using the Bangladeshi technique. Her work was mainly influenced through the discovery of a fabric native to Bangladesh known as Baf-thana, which means woven air, and studied the thread to develop her fabrics known as "woven air".
She was one of the three artists to be selected by the South West Arts Council
to create a piece celebrating the cultural diversity of Britain.
as the Art, Design and Textiles teacher and now at Frederick Bremer School
Specialist Engineering College (an amalagation of Warwick School for Boys and Aveling Park School
) as well as a form tutor. She has a soft approach to things whether textiles or school related.
MBE
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, is an award-winning British
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
textile
Textile
A textile or cloth is a flexible woven material consisting of a network of natural or artificial fibres often referred to as thread or yarn. Yarn is produced by spinning raw fibres of wool, flax, cotton, or other material to produce long strands...
artist of Bangladeshi
British Bangladeshi
A British Bangladeshi is a person of Bangladeshi origin who resides in the United Kingdom having emigrated to the UK and attained citizenship through naturalisation or whose parents did so; they are also known as British Bengalis...
origin. Her work has been exhibited both in the United Kingdom
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
and abroad.
Textiles career
Wahid was born in BangladeshBangladesh
Bangladesh , officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh is a sovereign state located in South Asia. It is bordered by India on all sides except for a small border with Burma to the far southeast and by the Bay of Bengal to the south...
and arrived to the United Kingdom
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
at the age of 5. Her work mainly consists of inter-cultural threads, from her English upbringing and spiritual Islamic influences using the Bangladeshi technique. Her work was mainly influenced through the discovery of a fabric native to Bangladesh known as Baf-thana, which means woven air, and studied the thread to develop her fabrics known as "woven air".
She was one of the three artists to be selected by the South West Arts Council
Arts Council England
Arts Council England was formed in 1994 when the Arts Council of Great Britain was divided into three separate bodies for England, Scotland and Wales. It is a non-departmental public body of the Department of Culture, Media and Sport...
to create a piece celebrating the cultural diversity of Britain.
Teaching profession
Rezia has also taught at Warwick School for BoysWarwick School for Boys
Warwick School for Boys was an all-boys school in The London Borough of Waltham Forest. Warwick was one of only two boys' schools in the Borough. The school had two sites . The North site was a combination of two Victorian buildings and two newer buildings...
as the Art, Design and Textiles teacher and now at Frederick Bremer School
Frederick Bremer School
Frederick Bremer School opened in September 2008 as a Specialist Engineering College, replacing Warwick School for Boys and Aveling Park School...
Specialist Engineering College (an amalagation of Warwick School for Boys and Aveling Park School
Aveling Park School
Aveling Park School was a mixed secondary school situated on Aveling Park Road, Walthamstow which schooled up to 600 pupils. In the early 1970s it was called William Fitt Junior High School and was a feeder school to McEntee, Walthamstow Girls and Sir George Monoux Senior High Schools...
) as well as a form tutor. She has a soft approach to things whether textiles or school related.