Decolonize Enamel Pin by @Sirena.Varma (Twig Collective)

About Sirena Varma:

Sirena Varma is a part-Palestinian multidisciplinary designer and artist who works across the visual arts, graphic design and exhibition design from Beirut, based in Magan-djin (Brisbane). Through processes grounded in collaboration and co-creation, Sirena brings forth evocative engagements on cultural care, collective memory and visual story-telling.  

As a self-taught graphic designer with a Bachelor in Architecture, and co-founder and creative director of Twig Collaborative along with Rami Saab and Omar Bacho, Sirena has spent over a decade refining her creative and collaborative processes. Guided by her commitment to cultural care and resistance through art, Sirena co-founded Magan-djin Creatives for Palestine with artist and print-maker, Prita Tina Yeganeh, designing branding and scenography for Magan-djin for Palestine exhibitions and activations. 

Sirena’s interdisciplinary praxis is shaped by creative processes that embrace engaging with a range of mediums and collaborators, alongside inspiration drawn from her Lebanese, Palestinian, German and Indian heritage and personal experience with migration. 

Impact:

Through their work, Twig Collaborative pledges support to key organizations, like The Ghassan Abu Sittah Children’s Fund and Medical Aid For Palestinians who are making a difference on the ground for the people in Gaza.