Azraa Motala is a visual artist from Lancashire, her multidisciplinary practice spans large-scale oil painting, photography, video, poetry, and site-specific interventions. Exploring the intersections of identity, culture, and belonging through the lens of her experience as a British South Asian Muslim woman.

Her work is grounded in a critical exploration of empire, history, and the politics of representation. Through a reclamation of space and narrative, she challenges orientalist portrayals of women in art and interrogates the legacies of colonialism that continue to shape contemporary cultural discourse. Increasingly, her practice is concerned with the role of place in shaping identity. Recent work reflects a growing engagement with rural England as a site of both personal reflection and wider historical resonance. Drawing connections between the landscapes of Britain and the diasporic memories of migration, heritage, and displacement, considering how natural environments can hold and reflect layered narratives of exclusion, belonging, and cultural identity.

Motala is committed to socially engaged practice, often working collaboratively with communities to foster dialogue and creative exchange. Her work not only examines what it means to navigate the world as a woman of colour in Britain today, but also contributes to a wider reimagining of British art and landscape traditions from a decolonial perspective.