REIMAGINING POSSIBILITIES

Safdar Ahmed is an artist, musician and scholar. His academic work linking various Muslim reformist thinkers to contemporary paradigms of modernity, was published by IB Tauris beneath the title Reform and Modernity in Islam. He is a founding member of the Refugee Art Project, for which he conducts art workshops with refugees and asylum seekers in detention. Founded to facilitate art workshops for detained asylum seekers, and to display their work in public exhibitions, The Refugee Art Project aims to deepen public understanding about the asylum seeker issue and the realities of Australia’s detention regime. In 2015, Safdar won a Walkley Award in the Artwork category for his documentary webcomic, Villawood: Notes from an Immigration Detention Centre. His multi award-winning graphic novel, ‘Still Alive,’ was first published by Twelve Panel Press in 2021 and has since been republished in the US, France and Germany. Safdar lives and works on the sovereign land of the Darug and Guringai peoples.