Thahmina Begum's first solo show: vivid, generous and rooted in the politics of belonging.
Deliciously Hybrid or Two-Tier Belonging? was Thahmina Begum’s first solo exhibition, held at Convention House in April 2026. Working across embroidery, screenprints, decorated plates and sculpture, the show explored identity, inheritance and the cost of belonging, asking what gets softened or left behind when we try to fit in, and what fragments of memory and culture travel across generations.
The title holds two things at once: ‘Deliciously hybrid’ is a celebration; ‘Two-tier belonging’ sounds like a warning. Both are true, and the exhibition sat right in that tension, without rushing to resolve it.
“When we assimilate, what is softened, edited or left behind to fit
Thahmina Begum is a British-Bangladeshi Leeds-based artist and art psychotherapist.
Thahmina works at the intersection of arts and health and is passionate about the transformational impact for creativity on well-being. Her work is interested in social, political and global issues of our time, including racial and intergenerational trauma.
Her artistic output includes sculpture, printmaking, collage, poetry and community projects. Recent projects include Hospital Rooms Commission, 2026; Practice Leeds, Yorkshire Contemporary 2025-6; exhibition, British Council, 2022; workshops, British Library, 2020; Yorkshire Sculpture International, 2024, among others.
Find Thahmina: @artbyfudgee
