Join us for Thahmina Begum: Delicious Hybrid or Two-Tier Belonging? Exploring identity, inheritance and belonging on the 17 April.
In her first solo exhibition Deliciously Hybrid or Two-Tier Belonging? Thahmina Begum invites us into a nuanced exploration of identity, inheritance and the politics of belonging. Working across textiles, screenprints and sculpture, the exhibition asks: when we assimilate, what is softened, edited or left behind in order to fit in? What fragments of language, memory or ritual become diluted or strengthened across generations?
The exhibition will open on 17 April from 6:30 pm, and will then be open by appointment between 10 am and 4 pm on 18 and 19 April at Convention House, LS9 7EH.
Please email Thahmina directly at ThahminaBegum@hotmail.co.uk to arrange a visit on the Saturday & Sunday.
Rooted in lived experience, the works move between tenderness and tension. Familiar materials, cloths, patterns, and domestic references are reassembled to create layered works reflecting the complexities of navigating multiple cultural worlds.
Considering the hybrid nature of culture and mixed identity, Thahmina proposes reclaiming ‘hybridity’ as a framework for power within compromise. Hybridity here is both celebration and negotiation: delicious in its richness yet shadowed by the sometimes bitter pressure to belong. The exhibition resists binary thinking, instead holding space for contradictions – pride and precarity, visibility and erasure, strength and vulnerability.
Deliciously Hybrid or Two-Tier Belonging? is an invitation to reflect on our own negotiations with identity, questioning the structures and hierarchies that shape us.
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.
Events like this are made possible thanks to the support of funders Leeds City Council, UKSPF and Arts Council England.
