BLUE PIETA

Blue Pieta is a multidisciplinary artist, director, dramaturg, writer and performer based in the UK. They explore mysticism, ancestry and dream. Merging ancient storytelling practices with contemporary expression, Pieta centres the body's vulnerability, bridging different media to create ritual environments for collective healing. They abstract emotion into a poetic universe that transforms suffering, both political and gendered, into contemporary mythologies of spiritual love. Inspired by nature, society, and religion, Pieta's work foregrounds the epistemologies of the Global South, such as Sufism, to invoke a New Surrealism rooted in pre-colonial and ecological world-views towards a Gesamtkunstwerk.

They regularly collaborate with T. S Elliot award-winning poet Bhanu Kapil, transforming her poetry into performance. Pieta and Kapil have co-authored a book published by the87press , Autobiography of a Performance (2025), which focuses on five performances they developed, including performance scores and essays. Pieta's work has been curated by: The Place, Courtauld Gallery, Horse Hospital, Serpentine Galleries, Battersea Arts Centre, Royal Court Theatre, among others.

They are the dramaturg for Akram Khan MBE's production Thikra: Night of Remembering which premiered in Wadi Al Fan (Saudi Arabia) 2025 followed by a world tour. They were also dramaturg for Nine Songs with artistic direction from Farooq Chaudry OBE and musical direction from Jocelyn Pook.

They studied Fine Art at Central Saint Martins and the History of Art at Cambridge University. They studied performance at Impulstanz Vienna, Sadlers Wells, Siobhan Davies and the National Youth Theatre.