Iranian painter Saye Sohrabi rose from the heart of repression to turn her canvas into a voice for silenced women. Migration wasn’t an escape, it was a rebirth; the awakening of a woman who redefines freedom through art, transforming pain into colour and silence into strength. “True artistry, for me, requires freedom, and I only found that outside Iran”, she says.
Culture
Dinner time
Many cookbooks are underused because sections in them – like starters/ hors d’oeuvre, desserts – tend to be given short shrift by those with busy lives and more in need of good ideas for an evening meal than culinary creations that might impress visitors in our home. Sean Sheehan […]
Carlos Acosta: a decade of Cuban talent in motion
One of the most influential figures in the world of dance created a show where five renowned Hispanic choreographers deployed in London an exuberant display of styles. It was his way of celebrating a decade of supporting Cuban talent. Under the title “A Decade in Motion”, the force of their […]
Hidden histories of South America
The title of this book, “Small earthquakes”, comes from the probably apocryphal story about the title that won a competition, among bored sub-editors on the Times, for the dullest newspaper headline that would make it into print: it was won with ‘Small Earthquake in Chile. Not many dead’. Sean […]
Internal exile
Modernism was a renaissance in the early twentieth century affecting different art forms around the world. Not coincidentally, it arose from the ashes of the destructive conflict of imperialist powers that produced World War I. Sean Sheehan Modernism is not to be conflated with modernity and its dustbinning […]
















