sentences:  Shirazeh Houshiary left her native country of Iran in 1973.She attended Chelsea School of Art, London (1976–9) and was a Cardiff College of Art junior fellow at (1979–80).Houshiary was identified with other young sculptors of her generation such as Richard Deacon and Anish Kapoor, but her work was distinct from theirs in the strong Persian influence which it displayed, though sharing with Kapoor a spiritual concern.