Shirin Town is a London-based surrealist photographer. Born in Sydney to an English father and Iranian mother, she lived in Sydney, Tehran, London, and Perth all before beginning school. This nomadic, cross-cultural upbringing - the early experience of shifting environments and identities - shapes her work by grounding her unique imagery in the expression of memory and emotions.

Shirin works intuitively to build scenes from multiple elements she has photographed, often including self-portraiture, to create dream-like worlds. These photographs are then intricately blended together to create the artworks, each representing a moment in time, a visual page from an ongoing diary where the surreal becomes a way to articulate what is difficult to express in words. Her work sits between the familiar and the otherworldly, using the language of the subconscious to examine emotion and how we transform. Through this process, she makes the deeply personal resonate as a human experience that is universally shared.