Towards Ambiguity [miniature paintings]

Born in the city of Lahore Ahsan Nadeem Sheikh started his arts training with the renowned artist Saeed Akhtar in 1994. Later at the National College of Arts [NCA] Ahsan graduated in the traditional art of Miniature painting whilst training along side in another grand art form of North Indian Classical Dance as a disciple of the world’s foremost exponent of Kathak Nahid Siddqui starting in the year 1997 till date.

Mastering various media of the visual arts Ahsan has appeared in many group and one solo shows in the major cities of Pakistan.

Ahsan has also represented Pakistan in the UK in the field of performance arts in the British educational system. He has also worked for several years in the Pakistani educational system in the same regard.

He made his debut in the year 2005 at the Rafi Peer theatre festival. He has performed at various venues such as the National College of Arts Lahore, Alliance Francaise de Lahore, Alhamra Arts Council Lahore, National Academy of Performing Arts Karachi, All Pakistan Music Conference Karachi and The Door, Birmingham Symphony Hall, UK to name but a few.

Introduction [Exhibition]

Fascinated with basic geometry, whilst studying and practising the traditional and basic layout of a Miniature painting, Ahsan understood the amazing notion of how appearances can be deceptive. With this the artist brought fourth a series of paintings where objects of every day whether organic or inorganic, transformed from their original appearance and hence their understanding once their geometric construction was manifested. The transformation is divided into three stages where objects start to loose their appearances and values as understood normally to a more ambiguous form that offers meanings far more than the original. It also highlights the human inability to know and comprehend the vast reality that exists around and how frames or packets of information of the environment is received which are in fact a fragment of a vast, unlimited and homogenous whole subjecting humans to rely upon names, labels and hence norms.

The work is thus entitled: Towards Ambiguity


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