The second in a four-part series exploring the contemporary art world features Shirazeh
Houshiary, a Persian-born artist in exile in Britain since the mid-1970s. Inspired by Sufi poetry and Islamic calligraphy, her sculptures take the form of austere cubes and trays in lead, silver and gold. Paintings are almost devotional acts for her: she dances in the centre of her canvas and with a pencil inscribes a single Sufi chant. Nicholas Ward-Jackson meets the artist at the end of her
European tour. A Pier production