Shirin Town

Shirin Town is a London-based surrealist photographer. Born in Sydney to an English father and Iranian mother, she lived in Sydney, Tehran, London, and Perth all before beginning school. This nomadic, cross-cultural upbringing - the early experience of shifting environments and identities - shapes her work by grounding her unique imagery in the expression of memory and emotions. Shirin works intuitively to build scenes from multiple elements she has photographed, often including self-portraiture, to create dream-like worlds. These photographs are then intricately blended together to create the artworks, each representing a moment in time, a visual page from an ongoing diary where the surreal becomes a way to articulate what is difficult to express in words.  Through this process, she makes the deeply personal resonate as a human experience that is universally shared.