Iftar with Mahtab Hussain

Join us for a celebratory Iftar, and experience a memorable evening of prayer, music and community spirit, as we mark the end of Ramadan. This event is open to all and aimed at increasing cultural exchange and understanding.

This Iftar is organised to coincide with Mahtab Hussain’s exhibition What Did You Want To See? (20 March – 1 June) and is presented as part of Muslim Heritage Month.

This exhibition is commissioned by Ikon and Photoworks and is supported by the  John Feeney Charitable Trust and Freelands Foundation.  

About the artist 

British artist Mahtab Hussain (b. 1981) explores the important relationship between identity, heritage and displacement. His themes develop through long-term research articulating a visual language that challenges the prevailing concepts of multiculturalism.

Hussain received his BA in History of Art at Goldsmith College specialising in Fine Art Photography; his MA in Museum and Gallery Management, City University, London; awarded an Arts Humanities Research Council (AHRC), he completed a MA in Photography at Nottingham Trent University. He has received numerous awards and commissions and has published four artist books: You Get Me?; Going Back to Where I Came From; The Quiet Town of Tipton; and The Commonality of Strangers.