The Karachi School of Arts (KSA), founded by Rabia Zuberi in 1964, has been recognized as one of the leading institutions of art education in the country.
The know-how about art, creativity and innovation in this part of the world was still in infancy when the ambitious project was launched with great enthusiasm.
The KSA is regarded as the pioneer of promoting art education and it takes pride in having produced many eminent artists during the last 48 years. It continues to serve the art community with devotion and dedication.
Recently a group of 16 faculty members of the KSA displayed their artworks in the third annual exhibition whose theme was printmaking.
The process of printmaking involves making multiple impressions on different sheets of metal, paper, cloth or any other material. The plates can be merged together or kept separate for each piece.
The teachers of fine arts, miniature, textiles, and digital media were first trained and taught how to mix printmaking with their work. All 16 of them produced around 30 works of arts of three types, etching, screen printing and calligraphy.
The Head of Digital Media department, Sadaf Sajid, experimented with photographs and printmaking. Her work was titled “Confined Freedom” and it showed pictures of Sheema Kirmani embossed and textured in different colours and techniques in line with making.
“My work shows that freedom is restricted for women. See the door behind Sheema? It shows they are never free and somewhere they are always confined,” she explained.
“Because the processes involved in printmaking are tedious, they aren’t used much these days. Before the exhibition we held a two-week workshop to teach the teachers how to use printmaking,” Romila Kareem, the Academics Coordinator, remarked.
“I have made a human hand with flowers on it. The flowers depict peace. I wanted to show that peace lies within yourself. The landscape behind the hand was the promised gardens of Eden,” she added.
Sheema Khan worked for weeks to create the storyline of Dastan-e-Amir Hamza, the hot-pink masterpiece which was a fusion of two mediums, miniature painting and printmaking. She penned Faiz Ahmed Faiz’s couplets on her painting with the prince and deer on her painting.
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