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Majid Adin | BAFTA Reuben Scholarship

Majid Adin | BAFTA Reuben Scholarship

Majid Adin is an artist and animator from Iran, now living in West Hampstead. He is awarded the BAFTA Reuben Scholarship to support an MA in Animation at Kingston University. Majid was politically exiled from his home country and journeyed through Europe, spending several months in the Calais ‘jungle’ before arriving in the UK in 2016.

 I am deeply appreciative of your support and promise to work hard and eventually give back to others with my positive art.

In 2017 he won a competition to produce an animation for a music video to illustrate Elton John’s song ‘Rocket Man’. After that, he made six short film animations and music videos. He is working on the graphic novel Hamid and Shakespeare. In addition, he attends different art exhibitions in London, Oxford, Cambridge, and Turin. In spring 2019, he completed a residency at the Venice Biennale, curated by Ai Weiwei.

Majid said: "The BAFTA Scholarship opens new doors for me to learn more about animation from the best mentors and find my artistic voice in animation art. I am deeply appreciative of your support and promise to work hard and eventually give back to others with my positive art."