Potters’ wheel: Catharsis through clay
The onset of the Fourth Asna Clay Triennial 2013, with its volley of the fiery arsenal of baked ceramics, is perhaps the reason why winter has taken to a sudden thaw in Karachi. Consequently, the rich variety of the sizzling contemporary clay, porcelain, ceramic and stoneware works by national and international clay artists exhibited across the city, undeniably, have the potential to cause a meltdown of

Photo art: From Lahore with love
An exhibition of the work of Julia Blackmore that took place at the Robert Mann Gallery, London in December 2012, presented a collection of photographs taken over a period of two years in which Blackmore featured ordinary people going about their daily lives. It was a series inspired by the 20th century French painter Balthus

Art fiend: Voices from within
The current Koel Gallery show in Karachi, titled, ‘Intimacy’, curated by Maha Malik, focuses on five women artists whose art practice centralises on subjective explorations. Subjectivity refers to the inner and separate realm in which we live most genuinely. To free the subjective self we must find it, listen to it and embrace it

Pop art: The intricate art
When one thinks of Indonesia one word immediately springs to mind — batik — the country’s most significant indigenous art form, often imitated but never equalled. Batik is a fabric that is traditionally made using a manual wax-resisting dyeing technique and if one studies the word in its historical context batik has profound meanings rooted in the Javanese conceptualisation of the universe