About

Basil Al-Rawi is an Irish-Iraqi visual artist working across photography, moving image, sculpture, and immersive media. His practice engages with archival materials and digital environments to examine how histories are constructed, mediated, and contested through images and technology. Drawing on personal, vernacular and collective archives, he develops works that reconstruct fragmented narratives and challenge dominant representations of West Asia.

Central to his practice is the development of large-scale projects such as the Iraq Photo Archive and the VR installation House of Memory, which use participatory and immersive methods to reconfigure vernacular photographs and oral histories into spatial experiences. His work operates at the intersection of archive, simulation, and memory, reconfiguring how historical material is experienced spatially and sensorially.

Al-Rawi holds a practice-based PhD from The Glasgow School of Art. He has exhibited internationally, including at The Photographers' Gallery, the Lahore Biennale, and the 25th Biennale of Sydney. He is the recipient of multiple Arts Council awards and the inaugural Gibson Travelling Fellowship from Crawford Art Gallery.

CV available on request — studio@basilalrawi.com