Bangladeshi artist Mahmudul Haque, who recently mounted a show at Karachi’s  Chawkhandi gallery, is a printmaker and painter of extraordinary textural sensitivity It is one of the mysteries of art that from millions of possibilities, the artist selects a particular combination to evolve his signature iconography. What is it that makes an artist give certain…

For the image maker, challenged by both the retinal and the cerebral experience, it was the search for a visual language that led to new tools to draw, paint, sculpt and print. The invention of photography can be seen as a part of this quest Photography with its faithful celluloid replication threatened the established position…

Sheherezade’s personal journey with clay began in the 1970s in Lahore when she became one of the first few graduates of The National College of Arts with a major in Ceramics. Her prolific career that stretches over three decades and two continents places her among the influential exponents of this art form in Pakistan The…

My first encounter with Shahzia Sikander’s work was in 1992. It was at a group show of recent graduates of National College of Arts that displayed selected parts of their thesis at Nairang Gallery in Lahore. The exhibition had been inaugurated by her mentor, Zahoorul Akhlaq, Pakistan’s eminent modernist. I remember Zahoor, usually a reticent…