Painter, sculptor and curator, Syed Saleem Arif Quadri was born in India in 1949 and moved to England with his family in 1966. He studied sculpture at Birmingham College of Art in 1969, later pursuing an MA in Painting at the Royal College of Art in London, graduating in 1975. He has worked in many disciplines, including painting, printmaking, photography, ceramics, sculpture, artists books and drawings, and is fascinated with the exploration of space and interplanetary dimensions. In 2008, he was awarded an MBE for services to the Arts.

Listen to his story here or read the full biography on the BURU database: https://www.buru.org.uk/contributor/syed-saleem-arif-quadri