Shaheen Ahmed is a Birmingham based UK artist whose practice is driven by empathy, reworking maps to share narratives of statelessness, crippling infrastructure and disparagement. Shaheen creates Kirigami map art along with brush, ink and thread work. This unique style evolved whilst studying book binding and gestural mark making in Italy, as part of a residency with the National Trust.

Shaheen's recent collaboration at the Lapworth Museum of Geology enabled her to experiment with scientific research relating to geometry fomulations and geological maps around plate tectonics (movement of a place). Shaheen uses a multitude of techniques and approaches that are layered within her work, from calligraphy to digital and Islamic geometry.