Ceramic Calligraphy Exhibition Opens in Islamabad

A unique exhibition of calligraphy in ceramics and pottery by well known artist, Dabir Ahmed, was inaugurated at ‘The Art Gallery’ on Monday evening.

Dabir, who graduated from the National College of Arts (NCA) in 1966 and then adopted a teaching career at the same institution from 1976 till the time he retired as the Head of Ceramics Department in 2003, has given a new dimension to the traditional art of calligraphy.

He has used the clay as the medium and, being an artist, played with it employing his skills and imagination to create a series of pieces of calligraphy that would attract viewer’s complete attention.

“It is a different medium but the field, the creativity behind what has been produced and displayed here, are the same. It is a bit technical, involving the knowledge of science as we need to use paints which would behave the way we desire at the extreme temperatures of kilns during the baking process,” Dabir said.