When Mostafa Azimitabar was imprisoned on Manus Island, he took up painting using the only supplies available to him – coffee and a toothbrush. Mostafa survived the brutality of Australia’s asylum seeker detention system for more than eight years.

Freed in 2021, he now lives in Sydney. But he paints from the edges of a country whose systems remain hostile towards him, as he navigates temporary visas with no stability, at constant risk of deportation.