Sulafa Mohammed is a self-taught Emirati artist who works with textile techniques typically understood as ‘crafts’; specifically, crocheting and knitting. Sulafa’s practice draws inspiration from her immediate surroundings and encounters, giving new life to the overlooked and seemingly insignificant characteristics of her daily activities.

Sulafa’s professional background is in Commerce Management and she is currently the Managing Partner for her family’s business, where numbers have a cold and calculative personality within the various metrics of commerce. Given the meditative mindset of crochet, it became crucial forher to recontextualize these numbers–embracing a conscious approach to recording, decoding and ‘humanizing’ these aspects of her experiences.These numbers define the parameters with which she creates her sculptures, allowing everyday chance to play a key role in determining the form of the final works.