Art and Activist duo Eldin&Love first met in person on a demonstration against the deportation of the autistic teenager, Osime Brown, at the Castlegate Aberdeen. They agreed to work together on a poetry and ceramics street-art performance at the Powis Gate. Initially the two artists had to build a working relationship via zoom because of Covid restrictions. They became friends and collaborators, joining words with visuals.
Noon Salah Eldin is a poet and spoken word artist based in Aberdeen, Scotland. Born and raised in Sudan, she moved to the UK in 2015 to pursue postgraduate medical training in child health. Writing and performing poetry has become an increasingly important part of her life. It has empowered her to process and discuss experiences of childhood traumas, political upheaval, migration and motherhood. She believes that art can be a powerful tool for personal and social transformation and has been asked to share her poems by governmental, NGO, and civil-society organizations.
Helen Love is a multimedia artist (working in drawing, film, ceramics, and glass) of immigrant parents (Denmark, South Africa) rooted in Aberdeen. A graduate of Edinburgh College of Art, studying Drawing and Painting with Stained Glass, she has exhibited in Copenhagen and the Faroes, been a community and public artist and ceramics technician at Gray’s School of Art, Aberdeen. In collaboration with Fine Day web design she created Glazespectrum.com, an open resource of ceramic glaze recipes. Love is a mother of four.
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