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Adel Salmanzadeh: Blending cultures

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Artist Adel Salmanzadeh takes inspiration from his Persian birthplace but the materials used in his latest sculptural installation are made of wood and slash found on the beaches of Tairawhiti which he now calls home.

Adel came to Aotearoa from Iran as a Baha’i refugee youth in 1989.

He met his Maori Samoan wife Maxine at the refugee camp in Mangere, Auckland, and they married in 1998.

His tw...


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