Cultivating a community of Female Muslim Creatives

Organisation: An.Other Collective
Role: Team Lead (Melbourne)
Year: 2022 - Ongoing

An.Other Collective is a community of female Muslim makers, artists, and designers spanning from Sydney and Melbourne.

the diverse perspectives of individuals and communities to dissolve colonial barriers and reductive misconceptions on matters associated with faith, politics, identity, art and culture.

The collective is a platform that gathers and weaves

Attendees at our exhibition ‘In Essence’, held at Bankstown Arts Centre, Sydney, 2023

The thumbnail for our interview with 3CR Radio, 2023

This is achieved through the collective’s interdisciplinary blend

of curatorial strategies and artistic expressions where the instrumental role of domesticity in public life acts as a center stage for new forms of spiritual preservation, collective thought and transcultural coexistence.

Doing henna art at our ‘Henna and Chai’ event in Ramadan, Sydney & Melbourne, 2024

Our ‘Eid Open House’ featured a pop-up photo studio for loved ones to capture precious memories together, Sydney & Melbourne, 2024

    • Fieldnotes on Being, Together, Dukkana Coburg, 2025

    • Fieldnotes on Being, Together, Brunswick Mechanics Institute, 2025

    • In Essence, Bankstown Arts Centre, 2023

    • Fabric of Your Identity (A.OC x Mind if I Come) Sydney, 2025

    • Fieldnotes on Being, Together (A.OC x Next Wave x Saluhan x CAST RMIT), Melbourne, 2025

    • Memory with our Loved Ones (A.OC x Bujkeh), Melbourne, 2025

    • Scrap Soiree (A.OC x Nawal Sari), Sydney, 2025

    • Taraweeh Cafe (A.OC x Dukkana Coburg), Melbourne, 2025

    • Haraka Baraka book launch (A.OC x SkatePal), Sydney, 2025

    • Free to Mingle, Free to Feed, Melbourne, 2025

    • Gathering Before The Light, PHIVE, Sydney, 2025

    • Light Wonders, HIVE Festival, Sydney, 2025

    • Henna Pop-Up, Art Souk, Melbourne, 2025

    • Petal Pals, Muslim Agenda, Immigration Museum, Melbourne, 2024

    • Open House, Melbourne, 2025

    • Open House, Sydney, 2025

    • Preserving Practice (A.OC x Marian Abboud), All School LAB, Next Wave, Melbourne, 2024

    • Ngabuburit, Women’s Work, PHIVE, 2024

    • Resist to Exist: Figs Rooted in South Lebanon (A.OC x Zeinab Mahfoud), Sydney, 2024

    • Paper Portraits (A.OC x Six Degrees), Melbourne, 2024

    • Paper Portraits, Free To Feed, Melbourne, 2024

    • Big Ride for Gaza, Sydney, 2024

    • Big Ride for Gaza, Melbourne, 2024

    • Ride for Palestine, Sydney, 2023

    • Strokes for Solidarity (A.OC x Charity Right), Melbourne, 2023

    • Resist to Exist: Poetry in Motion, Tin Sheds Gallery, Sydney 2023

    • Resist to Exist, Tin Sheds Gallery, Sydney 2023

    • Draw for Palestine, Bankstown Arts Centre, Sydney, 2023

    • In Essence: Makers Quarter, Bankstown Arts Centre, Sydney, 2023

    • In Essence: On Collectivism, Bankstown Arts Centre, Sydney, 2023

    • The Scope of Permissibility Book Launch, Sydney, 2023

    • Henna and Shay, The Social Studio, Melbourne, 2023

    • Henna and Chai, Auburn Community Centre, Sydney, 2023

    • A Plate at the Table, Sydney, 2023

    • Art and About, Melbourne, 2022

    • Art and About, Sydney, 2022

    • Artist Residency, Dukkana Coburg, Melbourne 2025

    • Collective Study Trip, Gudskul, Jakarta, Indonesia, 2025

    • Kickstart Artist Development Program, Next Wave, Melbourne, 2024 - 2025

    • Article: How this muslim creative community uses art to talk about social issues, Frankie Magazine, 2024

    • Radio: An.Other Collective, Women on the Line, 3CR Melbourne, 2023

Our ‘Collective Manifesto’ on display at Brunswick Mechanics Institute, Melbourne, 2025

Hanging out with Gudskul on our Collective Study Trip, Jakarta, 2025

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