ISLAMABAD – Amina Ansari, a British Pakistani artist collaborated withrenowned Artist Jamal Shah during 13-day long Islamabad Art Festival 2019held at Sir Syed Memorial Complex and Pakistan National Council of the Arts.
The ‘Situation 101’ project started from Karachi Biennial in 2017, JamalShah invited Amina to reinvent layout on his sculptural Murghas and it’sbeen more than a year that these 101 sculptures were developed with layersof paints as well as Mixed Media, transforming them in extraordinary mannerlike none imagined.
She also conducted workshops with interns and workers of PNCA as part ofArt Therapy and the use of techniques applied. Some of these faces aremarked on Murghas as part of community contribution and reflections.
Born in London, she studied at Central Saint Martins, London College ofPrinting and National College of Arts in Lahore, Pakistan. Amina Ansarishowcased her art work in Britain.
Talking to APP, she said that her artwork was also placed at WindsorCastle’s collection to mark the Diamond Jubilee and received acknowledgmentfrom her Majesty, The Queen in July 2012. “The ‘Paintings of Tribute’ byAmina, Her Majesty the Queen Elizabeth II and His Highness Prince Phillipwere received by the Buckingham Palace on Monday 9th July 2012”, she said.
She has been conducting workshops for women and deprived individuals atPakistan National Council of the Arts and workshops in Bani Gala organizedby Artcade.
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Amina represented Pakistan and exhibited at Asia Triennial Manchester inOctober 2018, where she collaborated with renowned writer Anjum Malik atpractical workshops, on portraying female immigrants and their experiencesthrough live digital Art on iPad by using her finger tips on screen and itwas filmed.
Amina said, “In my art work, I deconstruct the global dream, seasoning,music and dance, ideology, my reality, social justice and my writings thatare part of our childhood and adult culture in a striving manner to vividimagination from the Artist’s perception”.
She said that the uses of oils paint application are mind game tounderstand the dimensions from one skin to another in thickness andtherefore become a puzzle to understand the expression shown in a loudmode, rather than predictable copy-like subjects that are no indication oflanguage of art in terms of colours and movements in today’s modern era.”
