Shireen Qureshi was born in London in 1988.  She graduated from Goldsmiths College in 2010 and was awarded the Neville Burston Award for painting and the Warden’s Purchase. Qureshi’s painting depicts the human form within the disturbed privacy of domestic interiors. The work pulls apart the borders of the human figure, tugging on skin and limbs to hint at underlying emotion and fragmentary narrative. Through the intervention of paint, the body is enveloped by the domestic environment, swallowed by black holes and pulled into pieces of hair, bone and flesh.  The human body hovers between figuration and abstraction – layered, painted ghosts retaining their visibility whilst disappearing into their surroundings.