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Research/Teaching/Management
July 2009 Working with University of Cambridge and Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge in connection with 2010 Shahnameh Millennium exhibition project
Sept 2008 to April 2009 HEC (Higher Education Commission) Professor NCA Lahore Pakistan
August 2005 to date Summer Programme on Indian, Mughal & Persian Miniature Painting, the Princes’ School of Traditional Arts, London
Jan 2007 to Research Associate, Shahnameh Project, Faculty of
August 2007 Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge, UK
September to date Freelance researcher and educational consultant for Cambridge University Shahnama Project.
September 2003 to date Sessional Lecturer at the British Museum & Asia House as part of World Art Programme of Birkbeck College, University of London.
June2002 to July 2004 Honorary Visiting Fellow, Faculty of Art & Design,
De Montfort University, Leicester, UK
February 2000 Visiting Artist, Fine Arts Department, Fatima Jinnah Women University Islamabad, Pakistan
1998-2000 Assistant Professor/Research Fellow, post-graduate visual art programme, National College of Arts Lahore Pakistan
1999 Worked as a teacher trainer in Ali Institute for Education, Lahore (Aga Khan Project)
1999 to date Visiting tutor, The Prince’s school of Traditional Arts, The Prince’s Foundation, London
1995-1997 Visiting tutor, The Prince of Wales’s Institute of Architecture, London
Workshops & Seminars
1994 to date I have conducted numerous workshops and seminars on Indian, Mughal & Persian Miniature Painting and drawing, Decorative Arts & Design at the Victoria & Albert Museum London, National Maritime Museum Greenwich, London, The Globe-Shakespeare Theatre, The British Museum, Birmingham Art Gallery Birmingham, Art in Action Water Perry Park Oxford and at many other venues including schools, colleges ,etc. Besides, I am actively involved in adult learning and community education. I am also involved with the Princes’ School of Traditional Arts out reach programme.
With special reference to the Middle East, I was invited by H.H. Princess Haifa Al-Faisal to conduct a workshop on Islamic Painting/Arts of the Book at the Al-Nahda Postgraduate Institute for Women, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Commissions-
Design & Illustration
1995 to date Multicultural Children book illustration for London publisher
1993 Pattern designer at Queensberry Hunt London
1995 to date Developed Designs for Textile, Bridal Embroidery
2003 Miniature Painting in Persian/Arab style for the BBC documentary on Saladin and Richard the Lion Heart
2006/07 A large Persian/Mughal style miniature painting on the first Mughal Emperor Babur’s garden in Kabul, Afghanistan, for The Aga Khan Development Network
Qualifications and Training
1994-97 PhD (Visual Arts) by project-The Prince’s Foundation London - University of Wales
1991-1993 MA (Distinction), Royal College of Art London
1986/87-1990/91 BA (Fine Arts), National College of Arts Lahore, Pakistan.
Selected Solo & Group Exhibitions
2007 Chawkandi Art Gallery, Karachi Pakistan
2007 Sacred Space Gallery, Notting hill, London
2000-2005 Albert Villar Galleries, the Princes’ Foundation, London
2001 The Royal Windsor Castle, England
1999 Palette of Pakistan, Asian Gallery Singapore & Alhamra Arts Council, Lahore Pakistan
1999 National College of Arts teaching staff exhibition, NCA Gallery, Lahore, Pakistan.
1998 Summer Exhibition, Soni Gallery, London, England.
1997 50 years of Pakistan, A Celebration of Art, Art Connoisseur Gallery London, England.
1997 The Art Connoisseur Gallery London, England.
1996 Independence Exhibition. Alhamra Arts Centre Lahore, Pakistan.
1995 The Gallery, Allan Baxter's and Associates London, England.
1995 Hunting and Observer Art Competition (Finalist).
Henry Moore Gallery, Royal College of Art London, England.
1994 Art in Action, Waterperry Park Oxford, England.
1993 Annual Degree Show, Royal College of Art, Henry Moore Gallery London, England.
1992 5th Water-colour Competition Exhibition (Finalist). Organized by the Singer, Fried Lander and The Sunday Times.
• The Mall Galleries, London, England.
• Leeds City Art Gallery Leeds, England.
• The Royal Birmingham Society of Artists Birmingham, England.
1990/1991 All Pakistan Young Artists' Exhibition National Council of the Arts Islamabad, Pakistan.
1991 Annual Degree Show, National College of Arts Lahore, Pakistan.
Awards & Prizes
1997 Al-Tajir world of Islam Trust Prize for The degree show
1994-95 1st year PhD, funded by The Prince of Wales’s Institute of Architecture, London
1994-1996 Annemarrie Scimmel (Professor Emeritus Harvard University) Scholar
1993 MA passed with Distinction
1993 Al-Baraka Trust Award for the RCA degree show
1993 Best Artist of the RCA Degree Show (Daily Telegraph)
1991-93 Al-Baraka Trust Award for MA (RCA)
Other Research Works/ Study Tours
1991- 1996 Visual documentation of the following sites (photography, sketches & paintings, etc):
• Ayasofya, Istanbul, Turkey
• Blue Mosque, Sultan Ahmet, Istanbul, Turkey
• Topkapi Sarayi, Istanbul, TURKEY. Alhambra- Moorish Palace, Granada, Spain
• Generalife- Moorish Gardens, Granada, Spain
• Albaicin- Arab Quarters, Granada, Spain
• Mosque of Cordoba, Cordoba, Spain
• Shalimar (Mughal) Gardens Lahore, Pakistan
• Lahore (Imperial Mughal) Fort Lahore, Pakistan
• Imperial Mughal Mosque Lahore, Pakistan
• Wazir Khan (Mughal) Mosque Lahore, Pakistan
• Blue Tiled Tomb Architecture Multan, Pakistan
1996 Study tour to Chartres Cathedral, Chartres, France
1994 Study study tour to Fes and Volubilis, Morocco
1993 Humanities essay on the “Contribution of the Muslims in the Field of Music of Indo-Pak Subcontinent”.
1993 Research for a documentary film Miniature, the Mirror of the Mughals - for a postgraduate student at Goldsmiths’ College, University of London
1991 BFA Thesis on the Personification of Ragas (Indo-Pakistan classical music).
Workshops Attended
1984-2000 Japanese Paper Making, Botanical Drawing into Design Motif, Geometry, Islamic Calligraphy, Materials and Techniques of Medieval and Renaissance Painters, Preparation of Natural Pigments, Gesso and Egg Tempera, English Lettering, Holography, Photography, Ceramics, Tie & dye-Vegetable/Organic dying and Ceramics.
Academic Skills
• Art, Design (history & practical) and History of Architecture- Curriculum Research, Planning & Development (Undergraduate & Postgraduate level).
• Well versed with the Science of Teaching Pedagogy and Research Methodology.
• Capable to supervise PhD students in Fine Arts, Decorative Arts and Design of Islam (Middle East) and South Asia.
• Experience of writing and preparing all kinds of reports, proposals, essays, teaching manuals, articles, and presentations, etc.
Professional Art & Design Skills
Pattern Design, Drawing, Painting, Natural History Drawing; Figure Drawing; Surface Embellishment & Design;
Book Illustration; Paper Making; Natural Pigments preparation; Squirrel tail hair brush making; Botanical
Drawing into Design Motif; Gilding/Illumination; Restoration of Old Manuscript Illustration.
Other Art & Design Skills
Printmaking, Sculpture, Ceramics, Tie & Dye, Block Printing, (basic & elementary), etc.
Computer Skills
MS Word, Power Point, Quark Express, Adobe Illustrator, Basic knowledge of CAD, Dream Weaver and
Flash (comfortable with both PC & MAC).
Recently interviewed & filmed by Tribal Education UK for their Muslim Women Role Model series.
The work has been reviewed in the Press (Guardian, Telegraph) Arab & Asian News Papers, magazines and Cable TV
• Working on a proposal to develop educational software that’ll help students and teachers of art, design and architecture to discover about Mathematical Proportions, Drawing and Denotation Systems in the works and objects of Art, Design and Architecture with special emphasis on Islamic Art.
• Organising an International seminar and a conference on the Illustrated Manuscripts of Lahore
• Working on a number of children’s book illustrations
• Publishing a book on Indo-Mughal & Persian Painting Techniques
• Completing private commissions
• Developing a few multicultural interactive book projects for children (3+)
• Preparing towards a solo show(two years time) in London and abroad
• Developing new research concepts by bridging Mathematics/Geometry and Visual Arts (specially Islamic Art, Design & Architecture)
• Learning and Experimenting with New Media
July 2009 Working with University of Cambridge and Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge in connection with 2010 Shahnameh Millennium exhibition project
Sept 2008 to April 2009 HEC (Higher Education Commission) Professor NCA Lahore Pakistan
August 2005 to date Summer Programme on Indian, Mughal & Persian Miniature Painting, the Princes’ School of Traditional Arts, London
Jan 2007 to Research Associate, Shahnameh Project, Faculty of
August 2007 Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge, UK
September to date Freelance researcher and educational consultant for Cambridge University Shahnama Project.
September 2003 to date Sessional Lecturer at the British Museum & Asia House as part of World Art Programme of Birkbeck College, University of London.
June2002 to July 2004 Honorary Visiting Fellow, Faculty of Art & Design,
De Montfort University, Leicester, UK
February 2000 Visiting Artist, Fine Arts Department, Fatima Jinnah Women University Islamabad, Pakistan
1998-2000 Assistant Professor/Research Fellow, post-graduate visual art programme, National College of Arts Lahore Pakistan
1999 Worked as a teacher trainer in Ali Institute for Education, Lahore (Aga Khan Project)
1999 to date Visiting tutor, The Prince’s school of Traditional Arts, The Prince’s Foundation, London
1995-1997 Visiting tutor, The Prince of Wales’s Institute of Architecture, London
Workshops & Seminars
1994 to date I have conducted numerous workshops and seminars on Indian, Mughal & Persian Miniature Painting and drawing, Decorative Arts & Design at the Victoria & Albert Museum London, National Maritime Museum Greenwich, London, The Globe-Shakespeare Theatre, The British Museum, Birmingham Art Gallery Birmingham, Art in Action Water Perry Park Oxford and at many other venues including schools, colleges ,etc. Besides, I am actively involved in adult learning and community education. I am also involved with the Princes’ School of Traditional Arts out reach programme.
With special reference to the Middle East, I was invited by H.H. Princess Haifa Al-Faisal to conduct a workshop on Islamic Painting/Arts of the Book at the Al-Nahda Postgraduate Institute for Women, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Commissions-
Design & Illustration
1995 to date Multicultural Children book illustration for London publisher
1993 Pattern designer at Queensberry Hunt London
1995 to date Developed Designs for Textile, Bridal Embroidery
2003 Miniature Painting in Persian/Arab style for the BBC documentary on Saladin and Richard the Lion Heart
2006/07 A large Persian/Mughal style miniature painting on the first Mughal Emperor Babur’s garden in Kabul, Afghanistan, for The Aga Khan Development Network
Qualifications and Training
1994-97 PhD (Visual Arts) by project-The Prince’s Foundation London - University of Wales
1991-1993 MA (Distinction), Royal College of Art London
1986/87-1990/91 BA (Fine Arts), National College of Arts Lahore, Pakistan.
Selected Solo & Group Exhibitions
2007 Chawkandi Art Gallery, Karachi Pakistan
2007 Sacred Space Gallery, Notting hill, London
2000-2005 Albert Villar Galleries, the Princes’ Foundation, London
2001 The Royal Windsor Castle, England
1999 Palette of Pakistan, Asian Gallery Singapore & Alhamra Arts Council, Lahore Pakistan
1999 National College of Arts teaching staff exhibition, NCA Gallery, Lahore, Pakistan.
1998 Summer Exhibition, Soni Gallery, London, England.
1997 50 years of Pakistan, A Celebration of Art, Art Connoisseur Gallery London, England.
1997 The Art Connoisseur Gallery London, England.
1996 Independence Exhibition. Alhamra Arts Centre Lahore, Pakistan.
1995 The Gallery, Allan Baxter's and Associates London, England.
1995 Hunting and Observer Art Competition (Finalist).
Henry Moore Gallery, Royal College of Art London, England.
1994 Art in Action, Waterperry Park Oxford, England.
1993 Annual Degree Show, Royal College of Art, Henry Moore Gallery London, England.
1992 5th Water-colour Competition Exhibition (Finalist). Organized by the Singer, Fried Lander and The Sunday Times.
• The Mall Galleries, London, England.
• Leeds City Art Gallery Leeds, England.
• The Royal Birmingham Society of Artists Birmingham, England.
1990/1991 All Pakistan Young Artists' Exhibition National Council of the Arts Islamabad, Pakistan.
1991 Annual Degree Show, National College of Arts Lahore, Pakistan.
Awards & Prizes
1997 Al-Tajir world of Islam Trust Prize for The degree show
1994-95 1st year PhD, funded by The Prince of Wales’s Institute of Architecture, London
1994-1996 Annemarrie Scimmel (Professor Emeritus Harvard University) Scholar
1993 MA passed with Distinction
1993 Al-Baraka Trust Award for the RCA degree show
1993 Best Artist of the RCA Degree Show (Daily Telegraph)
1991-93 Al-Baraka Trust Award for MA (RCA)
Other Research Works/ Study Tours
1991- 1996 Visual documentation of the following sites (photography, sketches & paintings, etc):
• Ayasofya, Istanbul, Turkey
• Blue Mosque, Sultan Ahmet, Istanbul, Turkey
• Topkapi Sarayi, Istanbul, TURKEY. Alhambra- Moorish Palace, Granada, Spain
• Generalife- Moorish Gardens, Granada, Spain
• Albaicin- Arab Quarters, Granada, Spain
• Mosque of Cordoba, Cordoba, Spain
• Shalimar (Mughal) Gardens Lahore, Pakistan
• Lahore (Imperial Mughal) Fort Lahore, Pakistan
• Imperial Mughal Mosque Lahore, Pakistan
• Wazir Khan (Mughal) Mosque Lahore, Pakistan
• Blue Tiled Tomb Architecture Multan, Pakistan
1996 Study tour to Chartres Cathedral, Chartres, France
1994 Study study tour to Fes and Volubilis, Morocco
1993 Humanities essay on the “Contribution of the Muslims in the Field of Music of Indo-Pak Subcontinent”.
1993 Research for a documentary film Miniature, the Mirror of the Mughals - for a postgraduate student at Goldsmiths’ College, University of London
1991 BFA Thesis on the Personification of Ragas (Indo-Pakistan classical music).
Workshops Attended
1984-2000 Japanese Paper Making, Botanical Drawing into Design Motif, Geometry, Islamic Calligraphy, Materials and Techniques of Medieval and Renaissance Painters, Preparation of Natural Pigments, Gesso and Egg Tempera, English Lettering, Holography, Photography, Ceramics, Tie & dye-Vegetable/Organic dying and Ceramics.
Academic Skills
• Art, Design (history & practical) and History of Architecture- Curriculum Research, Planning & Development (Undergraduate & Postgraduate level).
• Well versed with the Science of Teaching Pedagogy and Research Methodology.
• Capable to supervise PhD students in Fine Arts, Decorative Arts and Design of Islam (Middle East) and South Asia.
• Experience of writing and preparing all kinds of reports, proposals, essays, teaching manuals, articles, and presentations, etc.
Professional Art & Design Skills
Pattern Design, Drawing, Painting, Natural History Drawing; Figure Drawing; Surface Embellishment & Design;
Book Illustration; Paper Making; Natural Pigments preparation; Squirrel tail hair brush making; Botanical
Drawing into Design Motif; Gilding/Illumination; Restoration of Old Manuscript Illustration.
Other Art & Design Skills
Printmaking, Sculpture, Ceramics, Tie & Dye, Block Printing, (basic & elementary), etc.
Computer Skills
MS Word, Power Point, Quark Express, Adobe Illustrator, Basic knowledge of CAD, Dream Weaver and
Flash (comfortable with both PC & MAC).
Recently interviewed & filmed by Tribal Education UK for their Muslim Women Role Model series.
The work has been reviewed in the Press (Guardian, Telegraph) Arab & Asian News Papers, magazines and Cable TV
• Working on a proposal to develop educational software that’ll help students and teachers of art, design and architecture to discover about Mathematical Proportions, Drawing and Denotation Systems in the works and objects of Art, Design and Architecture with special emphasis on Islamic Art.
• Organising an International seminar and a conference on the Illustrated Manuscripts of Lahore
• Working on a number of children’s book illustrations
• Publishing a book on Indo-Mughal & Persian Painting Techniques
• Completing private commissions
• Developing a few multicultural interactive book projects for children (3+)
• Preparing towards a solo show(two years time) in London and abroad
• Developing new research concepts by bridging Mathematics/Geometry and Visual Arts (specially Islamic Art, Design & Architecture)
• Learning and Experimenting with New Media