Select work being displayed at a show featuring theses work of Hunerkada School of Visual and Performing Arts students. PHOTO: AYESHA MIR/EXPRESS
She was speaking to The Express Tribune at an annual thesis show featuring the work of the Hunerkada School of Visual and Performing Arts’ Bachelor in Fine Arts Programme students. Liaquat designed a game for the deaf and the blind. She said her work was premised on the life of American author Helen Keller. Liaquat hoped that her work would serve as a prototype for this. Hammad Khan, another communication design major, created an advertisement campaign for a perfume.
Sehrish Mazhar, another artist, said she had used wood, plaster cast and fibre to make sculptures being displayed on the occasion. She referred to them as “manimals” saying that her work incorporated attributes of humans and animals. Mazhar said her work was premised on the concept of alterirty. She said she had observed animalistic traits in humans. Mazhar said her sculptures were a visual presentation of this phenomenon. One of her sculptures featured an enthroned human skeleton with the head and wings of a vulture. She said it depicted people in power.
Alina Fayyaz, who majored in textile design, created a pattern inspired by gothic architecture. She said she had used symbols found in gothic architecture to create motifs for her design. Fayyaz said she had used broken mirrors, mirrors, steel wire, laces, ribbons, acrylic paints and poster paints among other materials. Junaid Ahmed, another textile design major, used the work of Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky to develop new ideas and compositions for his thesis.
Zahra Fatima, a product design major, created decorative terracotta tiles after studying the Harappan civilisation. She said the sofa created by her was reminiscent of the wheel invented in Harappa. The legs of the sofa were wheel-like.
Fatima Butt, a miniature major, said her work was premised on correlating learning of alphabets with miniature painting.
The show concludes on Sunday (today).
Published in The Express Tribune, February 8th, 2015.
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