Mahrokh Mofid Nakhaei

Mahrokh Mofid Nakhaei is an Iranian painter based in Manchester, UK. Her recent work focuses on staged interior scenes in which light plays a central role. Through symbolic elements, domestic objects, and architectural fragments, her paintings explore memory, displacement, and the psychological tension between presence and absence. In her work, objects function both as physical elements within a space and as carriers of emotional and psychological weight. The paintings may appear to describe a specific moment, but they are more about holding a feeling, a mood, and a tension, where perception, memory, and sensation overlap. Mahrokh was part of the second cohort of Apollo Painting School in 2025. She holds an MA in Painting from Manchester School of Art, Manchester Metropolitan University, completed in 2024, and previously received an MA in Painting from Sooreh Art University in Tehran, Iran.