Gamze Şanlı is a diasporan Turkish and Cypriot multidisciplinary artist and performer. She holds a Combined Honours BA in Turkish & Greek Studies from King’s College London and SOAS, and an MA in Human Rights from UCL. Her craft weaves folklore and mythology, abolition and political resistance, death and witchcraft. Moving through different mediums, including experimental film and performance, documentary, illustration, embroidery, poetry and music, she reimagines and reframes the world with a queering, anti-colonial lens.
She is also in the programming team of London Short Film Festival and MENA Film Festival, and is part of the cohort for the Migrants in Culture Saturday School creative lab for border abolition. She is the founder of scattered seeds; a collective of diasporans, migrants and internationalists focusing on anti-colonial, abolitionist, feminist resistance with radical pedagogy, archiving, and art. She frequently works on projects within the intersection of migration and queerness in Belgium as part of Queers on the Move. Having worked in Erbil, Istanbul, and Athens, she is now based in London.
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