Featured Artist

By: Salima Hashmi Salima Hashmi was born to a renowned poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz and political activist and writer Alys Faiz on 14th December 1942 in New Delhi, India. During the partition in 1947 Salima left india and moved to Pakistan with her family and was raised in Lahore. She is a renowned Pakistani painter, […]

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A competition without consequence- Tourism sponsored Snow sculpting competition at Gulmarg makes mockery of artists, students of art

A few days ago, JK tourism Department announced a ‘snow Sculpting Competition’ to be held in Gulmarg and invited artists, students to take part in the event. The art fraternity, having already very little avenues and meagre occasions to celebrate here in Kashmir, jumped to the invite and began their week-long tryst with snow in […]

Ismail Gulgee: Featured Artist

Born on 25 October 1926 at Karimpura locality in Peshawar, Pakistan, Gulgee went to Lawrence College Murree before entering Aligarh University in India for civil engineering. He continued his engineering studies at Columbia and Harvard University.  During his stay in the United States, he developed passion for painting and gradually began his journey as an […]

Abed Abdi: Artist and Artwork

Abdi is a Palestinian painter, graphic designer, sculptor and art lecturer. Abdi became the first Palestinian to build monumental art on native soil. His allegorical monuments in Galilee, honoring human fortitude and resistance, include a narrative mural depicting Elijah’s defiance and survival and a bronze Land Day memorial. Abed Abdi was born into a Haifa […]

Artist and Artwork: Tagreed Darghouth

Born in 1979 in Saida, Lebanon, Tagreed Darghouth currently lives in Beirut. She operates as a socio-cultural historian, with a practice that focuses on the myriad cultural changes in her country. Darghout received her degree in Fine Arts from Lebanese University in Beirut, and continued her studies at the Ayloul Summer Academy at Darat Al […]

Featured Artist: Zehra Dogan

Zehra Dogan is a Kursdish artist and journalist who was arrested and imprisoned in 2017 for her art. Born in 1989 the 31 year old artist and journalist Zehra Dogan was charged with “terrorist propaganda” which was an initial reaction of Turkish government on her revolutionary news coverage, social media posts, and her paintings. In […]

Sayed Haider Raza: Artist and Atwork

A renowned Indian artist Sayed Haider Raza commonly known as S H Raza was born on 30th March 1922 in Kakkaiya, near town Bichhiya Mandla district of Madhya Pradesh. Recipient of  Padma Shri, Padma Bhushan and Padma Vibhushan, Raza took to drawing at the age of 12. He co-founded the revolutionary Bombay Progressive Artists’ Group […]

Bapu Ji: Nandalal Bose

Nandalal Bose painted the famous portrait of Mahatma Gandhi’s Dandi March. The protest where Gandhi was fighting against the British who had imposed the tax on salt.  To mark the date of Dandi march and as the support for the potest, Nandalal Bose painted a black and white linocut print of Mahatma Gandhi walking during […]