Shehzad Jaffer is a UK-based multidisciplinary artist and storyteller, born in Leicester to East African Asian parents. Working across sculpture, installation, and assemblage, he transforms found and discarded materials into interactive spaces that dissolve the boundaries between the real and the mythical.

graduate of the Royal College of Art and recipient of the Leverhulme Arts Scholarship, Jaffer aims to make art accessible through the use of his materials, hoping to inspire connection through creativity and self expression. He conjures immersive worlds that encourage reflection and dialogue, challenging the idea of a single reality and linear understandings of self and society.

Jaffer’s practice operates at the intersection of playfulness and socio-political reflection. Through coded narratives of love, pain, and discovery, he explores identity, collective memory, and performance within the flux of contemporary life, often using humour to reflect tragedy. Drawing on histories of migration and displacement, his work challenges colonial legacies through the magical and the theatrical, constructing alternate dimensions that mirror, distort, and reimagine our own. These speculative worlds question the stability of reality in an increasingly digital age, where humanity drifts ever further from the spiritual.