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Basil Al-Rawi (b. 1981) is an Irish-Iraqi visual artist working across photography, moving image, sculpture, and digital environments. His practice explores the landscapes of personal and cultural memory, hybrid identity, and the mediated structures through which histories are told, obscured, or reclaimed. Central to much of his recent work is the idea of the memoryscape: immersive environments, physical or virtual, that spatialise memory and allow audiences to navigate reconstructed moments drawn from fragments. His work has been exhibited internationally, including at IMMA, The Photographer's Gallery, and The Institute of International Visual Arts. Selected exhibitions include The Tides of Monumental Gesture (Luan Gallery) SHAHIDشَـاهِد (The LAB), Unsettling the Algorithm (Beta Festival), and Of Mountains and Seas (Lahore Biennale), and he will have his first solo show at Sirius Arts Centre in 2026. He was recently awarded the inaugural Gibson Travelling Fellowship by Crawford Art Gallery to support an extended period of international research and enquiry. He exhibited House of Memory at the International Centre for the Image's inaugural exhibition. His practice is currently supported through a bursary from the Arts Council of Ireland.