Name Art Bar, keynote, workshop or a combined gallery experience.
Corporate events · conferences · universities · museums
Live art that gives people a story to take home.
Bring together performance, personalisation and cultural storytelling in an experience designed around your audience.
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Clear enough for an event team. Personal enough for the room.
Date, location, audience size, timings and what success looks like.
Fee, travel, set-up, materials, audience flow and next steps.
Signature packages
Three distinctive formats. Tailored to your event.
Indicative fees help event teams plan quickly. Travel, specialist materials and unusually large audiences are quoted separately.
01
Live experience
The Name Art Bar
Guests watch their names become individual works of Arabic calligraphy, created live and presented as keepsakes.
- Live Arabic calligraphy name keepsakes
- Professional display and artist set-up
- Designed for receptions, dinners and activations
02
Keynote + demonstration
Art of Belonging
A human story about migration, home and dual identity, followed by a live demonstration of the QEII Script.
- 30–45 minute keynote or cultural talk
- Live QEII Script demonstration
- Audience Q&A and event host briefing
03
Premium activation
The Gallery Experience
A portable exhibition, keynote and live name art experience, creating an immersive cultural centrepiece for your event.
- Curated portable artwork display
- Keynote, demonstration and name-art experience
- Optional commissioned work for the organisation
Guests leave with something personal, not just a memory of a presentation.
Talks can connect identity, migration, faith, architecture and script history.
The work gives audiences a generous language for difference and common ground.
Speaking topics
Ideas that open up a room.
Talks can stand alone or be paired with a live calligraphy demonstration, exhibition or facilitated conversation.
Art, Identity & Belonging
How creativity helps people and organisations build bridges between cultures and create a genuine sense of belonging.
Creating Home Between Two Cultures
A personal and practical exploration of migration, memory, architecture and the many meanings of home.
The Story of the QEII Script
How Arabic Kufi and English Blackletter came together to express a confident, contemporary British Muslim identity.
The Qur’an & Arabic Calligraphy
A visually rich journey through writing, preservation, culture and the development of the great Arabic scripts.
Watch
Can Your Exile Be Your Home? TEDxNewcastleUniversity
Simple by design
From enquiry to event day.
- 1Share the essentials
Date, location, audience and the experience you have in mind.
- 2Receive a tailored proposal
We confirm availability, scope, travel and a clear total fee.
- 3We prepare everything
Materials, display and delivery details are organised before the day.
- 4Welcome your guests
Lord Richard delivers the agreed experience, ready for your audience.
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