Layla Jabbari

East Yorkshire, United Kingdom

Layla Jabbari is a Hull-based illustrator working in print and mixed media.

Layla's work was highly commended for the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize, 2025. Layla came third in the SCAF emerging artists award 2025. She has been shortlisted for the Flourish Awards for excellence in Printmaking 2024 and 2025. Layla was selected for Ones to Watch, Yorkshire 2024, with Sunnybank Mills Gallery and longlisted for World Illustration Awards 2023. Layla has exhibited work at various art galleries across the country including with the Royal Society of Painter Printmakers at Bankside Gallery, London, Green and Stone Gallery, London and Ferens Art Gallery, Hull. Layla won the Printmaking Today Award at the Ironbridge Printmaking Competition, 2024.

Layla is currently working on a residency with ArtLab Contemporary Print Studios, Arts Council DYCP funded. Layla teaches drawing and Printmaking at Feral Art School, Hull.

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