Ghafar Tajmohammad If you throw a stone in the crowd, someone’s going to get hurt

Name: Ghafar Tajmohammad If you throw a stone in the crowd, someone’s going to get hurt
Start: 2025-09-26T09:00:00+00:00
End: 2026-01-11T17:00:00+00:00
Location: Firstsite

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Next: Thursday, 9 October 2025

Runs until Sunday, 11 January 2026 (See all dates)

Time: 10:00 - 17:00
Venue: Firstsite, Colchester, CO1 1JH
Price: Free admission

Explore Ghafar Tajmohammad’s thought-provoking collection of paintings and hand-woven rugs

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The exhibition’s title comes from a proverb shared with Ghafar by a fellow Afghan while talking about the bombings in Afghanistan.

Today, the phrase feels even more powerful against the backdrop of global conflicts. For Ghafar, it reflects both feelings of helplessness and the hope that expressing the collective “crowd” might encourage solidarity and social connection.

Ghafar’s work talks about ideas like home, belonging, and migration of people moving from one place to another.

His art looks closely at the experiences of people from the Afghan community who have moved to new places, especially to the UK. He uses painting in new and different ways to share these stories.