Arts & Crafts - 6

He does it so well that not even the sharpest of experts can tell the difference between the real and the copy, except that the latter has a fresh look. Although, if required, he can make his work look 3,000 years old. Ustad Ghulam Mustafa rarely comes to Islamabad and this particular display had been [...]

It was a wonderful trip and unprecedented in the world of art in Pakistan. They very idea, to spend a week among the ravishing scenes of nature and mountains and lakes, was highly appreciated by the group which consisted of painters, sculptors and photographers, and it was a reluctant party that returned to Islamabad when [...]

While working in a post office in the UK, he kept on painting as a hobby along with sorting out letters. Later, he started displaying and selling his works in the art streets for a meagre 5 to 10 pounds. Slowly people started noticing his unusual work and he got recognition through his major solo [...]

Various nurseries from the city and from Lahore have amassed a great. Floriculture treasure, an unprecedented precedent of an overall improvement in cultivars, hybridisation, selection of graded seeds and floriculture are that vies well with any of the best shows in the world. The dahlias, the pansies, calendulas, anti rrhinums, carnations and other winter annuals [...]

Jimmy Engineer, who has done more than 3,000 paintings and won numerous national and international awards, is also a peace activist. At the peak of the India-Pakistan tensions two years ago, he walked from the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, to the Indian border with flags of the two rival nations embossed on his shirt, urging people [...]

The artist is indeed a lyrical colourist and blends her colours in a very surrealistic fashion. There’s a profusion of orange in her works, reflective of the setting sun and its dying embers as the day disappears into eternity. Her colours carry a spiritual significance. She shapes her letters in the Kufic style, with geometrical [...]

The first solo exhibition of young sculptor-cum-painter, Abdul Jabbar Gul, opened here at Nomad Gallery on Tuesday. As many as 30 wooden sculptures, 20 paintings , some in oil on canvas and a few on colour wash, have been put on display. Some of his art pieces have serene quality such as the sculpture named [...]

Mansoora’s ongoing conceptual photographic video projects, ‘The Black Burqa: 9/11′, ‘Afghan Burqa: Begging for Peace’ and ‘Bound/Unbound’ depict the current global landscape. The artist uses the projects to take apart stereotypes. These are not comfortable works and are fraught with unanswered questions, said Saleema Hashmi, a former National College of Arts principal. Mansoora, who was [...]

Starting today, an exhibition called Beyond Borders: Art of Pakistan, will be on display at the National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), Mumbai. The NGMA along with the Young President’s Organisation has brought together more than 150 works that comprises sculptures, installations, paintings and video art. Artist Naiza Khan, one of the artists who is [...]

The exhibition has been organised by the British Council in collaboration with Kodak Ltd. The aim of the workshop is to introduce digital photography to photojournalists in the process of learning the art of digital photography. A total of 41 images selected to from the digital photography exhibition were put on display at the gallery. [...]