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Faculty of Art
Drawing and Painting
Meet the Artist
Diana
Kiaee
Interdisciplinary
“A fragmented memory of a childhood ritual; one only as ephemeral as the lepidopteran forms it is depicted as, and only as tangible as patches, ink, wire, beads, and chains.”
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Diana Kiaee is a Persian artist born in Birmingham, England. Through her life sized interdisciplinary canvas drawings of translucent lepidopteran forms using diluted pen ink and chained mobile sculptures using bent wire, Kiaee attempts to depict her memory of taking part in the childhood ritual of chasing butterflies. These ephemerally charged memory depictions that attempt to hold a tangible form through sewn patches and beads, mark the distinct moments within her memory; moments prior, during, and subsequent to the odd moment of transformation that occurs. The transformation of what was perceived to be a butterfly into a moth; a moth that prior to this, had already gone through many layers of transformation on its own. Essentially, through these depictions, the artist attempts to preserve the moment of transformation that occurs within this memory, and therefore attempts to preserve the ephemeral. Kiaee has recently completed a BFA in Drawing and Painting at OCAD University, and is in the process of pushing the technique of these depictions further.
Drawing Textile Embroidery Sculpture
2024, GradEx 109
OCAD University, Toronto
2023, Takao Tanabe Scholarship
OCAD U
2022, Andre Beaulieu Bursary for Young Visual Artists (General)
OCAD U
2021, OCAD U (TSA Summer) Bursary for Full-time Students
OCAD U
2021, OCAD U (TSA Fall) Bursary
OCAD U
2020, Christopher Pratt & Mary West Pratt Bursary
OCAD U
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