Maryam is a British Pakistani artist and photographer who creates art that tells the stories from women of her culture. Coming from a British Asian Pakistani background art was not something she was supposed to pursue. Most people around her studied maths, sciences, and languages to become doctors, lawyers, and accounts. Maryam had a passion for art and took art for her GCSE’s. She then went on to study business and religious studies, as well as photography. Throughout all these studies she knew photography would be what she would choose as a career path. She then decided she was going to take her art seriously and went to university to study photography.

Whilst at University Maryam developed her skills as a photographer and her lover for photography grew. In her final year just as she was about to graduate Maryam won the Portrait Britain Award by the British journal of Photography which, gave her confidence and allowed her to become a known photographer. She then began to learn about other awards and funding particularly for artist to access. With this knowledge she decided that she was now going to live and breathe her art with all her passion

Maryam gained awards and funding which, enabled her to host a group show along with two other British Asian artists at the New Art Gallery Walsall. She then went on host a solo exhibition in Wales titled Mother Land which, featured work she created from her projects showing British Pakistani women and of women in Pakistan itself from a trip she took when she was 23. Maryam has now hosted several solo exhibitions including ones at Moda Arts Birmingham and her most prestigious one yet at the Midlands Arts Centre.