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Fauzia Minallah's art is inspired by the natural environment of the Potohar, where Islamabad is situated. Its verdant flora is interpreted through the rain drenched light with meditative strokes that entwine colour with lines. Tiny brave flames of oil lamps nestle in the heart of shrines and the hollow of ancient trees to become symbols of history denied and threatened by urban expansion.
Niilofur Farrukh, art critic and editor Nukta Art magazine
Paintings 2006 |
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'Fauzia's visual imagery centres on large areas of murky shadows illuminated by panels of glowing light, much like light flooding through a door or window in a darkened room.
She carves out these areas from within the wooden painting boards to create a 3-D effect and then paints them in whites and yellows. Establishing her concept of light and dark, or life and death, the artist stages her main performance in the luminous spaces. Her themes centre around home, family and togetherness, with allusive references to politics and the world situation.
Minallah adopts a soft edged humane stance. Mixed media effects of brushwork, carving, engraving and tattooing are peculiar to her work. She derives inspiration from ancient Gandhara carvings as well as slate engravings or chitarkari found on slate tombs in the cemeteries of her home town in the Gangar mountain region of the NWFP.
She carves out these areas from within the wooden painting boards to create a 3-D effect and then paints them in whites and yellows. Establishing her concept of light and dark, or life and death, the artist stages her main performance in the luminous spaces. Her themes centre around home, family and togetherness, with allusive references to politics and the world situation.
Minallah adopts a soft edged humane stance. Mixed media effects of brushwork, carving, engraving and tattooing are peculiar to her work. She derives inspiration from ancient Gandhara carvings as well as slate engravings or chitarkari found on slate tombs in the cemeteries of her home town in the Gangar mountain region of the NWFP.
Salwat Ali , art critic Dawn Gallery November 2004.
