Morvarid Alavifard
Morvarid Alavifard is an Iranian precious metal artist based at Yorkshire Artspace, where she was awarded the 2024 Silver Fellowship. Through silversmithing and metalworking, she explores memory, touch, emotion and resistance, drawing on her experience as an Iranian woman. She holds an MA from the Royal College of Art, completed a residency at Bishopsland and exhibits nationally and internationally.
Morvarid Alavifard
Morvarid Alavifard is an Iranian precious metal artist based at Yorkshire Artspace, where she was awarded the 2024 Silver Fellowship. Through silversmithing and metalworking, she explores memory, touch, emotion and resistance, drawing on her experience as an Iranian woman. She holds an MA from the Royal College of Art, completed a residency at Bishopsland and exhibits nationally and internationally.
Whispers of Freedom
Silver, Gold
30 x 30 x 9 cm
Whispers of Freedom uses silver as a space for emotional translation. Through distorted vessel forms, Morvarid Alavifard gives shape to silence, longing and resilience, inviting the viewer into a tactile encounter with what often remains unspoken. By adapting the traditional Iranian technique of koftegari, inlaying gold into silver rather than steel, she reimagines heritage as something living and shifting, where memory is carried, fractured and remade. Within this process, Iranian metalworking enters into dialogue with British and Japanese metalworking training she has undertaken.
