Sheherezade Alam
One of Pakistan’s earliest and most distinguished ceramic artists, Alam brought the world to Lahore through her exploration of different traditions of working with clay.
One of Pakistan’s earliest and most distinguished ceramic artists, Alam brought the world to Lahore through her exploration of different traditions of working with clay.
Zahoor ul Akhlaq, who mentored many of the leading artists of today during his time as professor at the National College of Arts, helped open the path for the reconsideration of traditional forms, such as miniature painting, as contemporary practice.
Weaving footage from diverse hydrographies such as the Colorado, the Yaqui, the Xingu, the Spree and the Magdalena Rivers, Carolina Caycedo’s To Stop Being a Threat and to Become a Promise (2017) contrasts the ancestral and rural 'campesino' lifestyle found throughout the Americas with extractivist approaches to water and land ... More
Abbas’s Aerial Studies are among the latest pieces the artist has realized in marble inlay, which she began to work with after her return to Lahore in 2015, engaging with local workshops and in the process developing a close familiarity with the stone’s variations across different parts of Pakistan and ... More