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Place of Birth: Tehran, Tehran Province, Iran
About Partou Zia
- Partou Zia (9 October 1958 – 19 March 2008) was a British-Iranian artist and writer.
- Born in Tehran, she emigrated to England in 1970, where she completed her secondary education at Whitefields school near Hendon, London (1972–78).
- Zia studied Art History at the University of Warwick (1977–80) and at the Slade School of Fine Art (1986–91).
- In 2001, she completed a PhD at Falmouth College of Arts and the University of Plymouth.
- In 1993, she moved to Cornwall where she lived and worked with her husband, the painter Richard Cook, until her death from cancer, in March 2008.
- Tate St Ives honoured her parting by hanging one of her last completed canvases, Forty Nights and Forty Days as a memorial to her, for a month, at the gallery's entrance.In 2003, Tate St Ives initiated a pioneering residency programme at the historic Porthmeor Studios in St Ives, Cornwall, previously occupied by Borlase Smart, Ben Nicholson and Patrick Heron.
- Zia was the first recipient of this award and her exhibition at Tate St Ives was accompanied by a catalogue 'Entering the Visionary Zone'.
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