Biography
Born in Pakistan, Ghafar is of Afghan heritage and was displaced as a small child. He grew up in Southeast London, Graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Painting at Camberwell College of Arts and works as a Curatorial Assistant at the Migration Museum.
Notable projects include Borderings selected by Hypha Studios to be showcased at Catford (2022). Sharing our Stories at the British Library (2022), Borderings: Displacement, Gender and Health produced by UCL (2021), NAE Open at the New Art Exchange (Nottingham, 2019) and Serp Reactivated with Peckham Platform in Tate Modern, (2018).
Interviews and Awards include Creative Lives - In Progress by Creative Lives (2023), Local foreigners by Maryna Sulym (2022) and the Meads Final Project Award by Scotts Meads Foundation (2019).
"Recently, my work has become heavily concerned with mobilising refugee / diaspora voices, so as to to be heard and provide to the general public narratives that are based on lived experiences. A specific project I am currently undertaking, is to collect oral stories of Afghans living in the UK and their experiences of the Fall of Kabul on August 15th 2021."
Exhibitions
Sharing our Stories
June 2022
Weinrebe Learning Centre, The Britsih Libary, 96 Euston Road, London, NW1 2DB
BORDERINGS
April 2022
96 - 102 Rushey Grn, London SE6 4HW
Borderings: Displacement, Gender and Health
December 2021
Virtual exhibition by University of College London
PLUS+1
September 2021
Hoxton, London
NAE OPEN
July 2019
39-41 Gregory Blvd, Nottingham NG7 6BE
WALLS OF OUR HOME
June 2019
45- 65 Peckham Rd, London SE5 8UF
P2
February 2019
Copeland Gallery 133 Copeland Rd SE15 3SN
UTOPIA 2.0
October 2018
Riverside Building, Hammersmith, London, W69 WA
IN(USE)
July 2018
HaArtsLane Gallery, 17 Hart’s Ln, London, SE14 5U
SERP REACTIVATED WITH PECKHAM PLATFORM
April 2018
Tate Modern, Tate Exchange Bankside SE1 9TG
OVER CAPACITY
November 2017
CGP Gallery, Southward Park Rd, SE16 2DD
DRAWING ATTENTION
November 2017
114 Amersham Vale, SE14 6LG
MIXER
March 2016
Protein Studios Shoreditch, EC2A 3EY
Interviews / Awards
Creative Lives In Progress
2023
Creative Lives
Local Foreigners
2022
Maryna Sulym
MEADS Final project award winner
2019
Scott Meads Foundation
Boomerang Cultural Exchange
2019
Gradcore