Expanded Fields series #1: Leena Kheir

Architectural Graduate, writer, artist, activist and A+W NZ member Leena Kheir has a current exhibition at the Homestead Galleries, Corban Estate Arts Centre in Henderson, Tamaki Makaurau, Auckland.

She is a Country is open from 16 December 2023 - 24 February 2024

@leenakheir is where you can find more about Leena, her art and her activism.

There are many ways to shape an architectural life, and Leena has ensured to focus on flexibility to allow her art practice to develop alongside her work in the construction industry. Her discipline has seen her first one-person show, after participation in the Yala, For Sudan exhibition earlier in 2023.

Leena's work foregrounds the strength, resilience and beauty of Sudanese women, and the spatial, political and personal implications in the Sudanese tobe, developed from themes present in her 2017 MArch(Prof) thesis The Fold, the Screen and the Veil; a Domestic Architecture for the Sudanese Diaspora.

Leena has worked for Monk Mackenzie Architects in Tamaki Makaurau, Auckland, and Adjaye Associates in London (both physically and online during lockdown), and is currently working in Project Management.

This is the first in a series highlighting the benefits of reduced hour working weeks, enabling Architecture in an Expanded Field. The architects and architectural graduates in this series have all consciously designed their working lives to benefit from their adjacent creative practices.