The ArtChowk Gallery has been hosting Riffat Alvi and Aliya Husain Ahmad’s ceramic art exhibition titled ‘Modern Contemporary’. The two-person show will run until December 25.
According to the statement released by the gallery, Riffat is renowned for her work in ceramics and the third dimension. Her use of earth as pigments is her novel technique that has created great interest internationally.
She has travelled extensively and shown her works within and outside Pakistan, with her unique visual perception that creates an immediate impact on the viewer.
Riffat ran the VM Art Gallery for three decades as its director and has created it as a base for shows from Europe and the Americas. She singlehandedly started the “emerging artists” platform that has launched some of our internationally renowned artists of today. But her most important legacy remains her own art.
The statement said that though Aliya was born in Pakistan, she is a true “citizen of the world”. She has spent much of her life on the move. She has lived in Pakistan, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Toronto, London and Dubai, and now calls Bahrain her home.
She is a self-taught ceramic artist and has enjoyed the process of educating herself in the art field by researching, reading and experimenting. She studied jewellery design at Toronto’s George Brown College, allowing her to incorporate metalsmith techniques in her work as well as to create jewellery out of earthenware.
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