Amber Hammad
Pakistani-Australian creative, artist and researcher
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Amber Hammad (born 1981) is a Pakistani-Australian creative, artist and researcher who has exhibited her artworks at a number of national and international galleries and museums.[1] Her artistic style is multi-disciplinary but she is most well known for grandeur self portraiture in which she challenges and reimagines visibility, invisibility and misrepresentation and questions Islamophobia.[2][3][4]
She is currently working towards her PhD at the University of Sydney where she is working on a thesis: Neo Sufi-Feminism: Illuminating the Veil and the Feminine in South Asian Sacred Sufi Vernacular which she is doing through self portraiture.[1]