Salam Shamki is a London-based multidisciplinary artist who is driven by story and documentation. She works as a freelance filmmaker, artist, arts facilitator and will soon launch Heartnouveaux, an alternative jewellery and crochet boutique. Her works are inspired by her cultural identity as a British Iraqi as she seeks to create works that identify and interrogate British and Iraqi culture through a post-colonial lens – as in her to-be-released project ‘Do I need the National Gallery?’ Focusing on Iraqi culture and arts, Salam intends to use both fiction and documentary film – both live action and animation – to ask questions and archive pasts and presents.