Nusra Latif Qureshi (b. 1973)

Acquired from Canvas Gallery, Karachi

Good overall condition. Background color is more green and less turquoise than it appears in the catalogue illustration.
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Born in Pakistan and trained in the traditional techniques of Mughal miniature painting, Nusra Latif Qureshi migrated to Australia in 2001 to pursue of her postgraduate study in art. The present work, Familiar Memories II, portrays a traditional female miniature figure imbued with a powerful element of surrealism via her modern salweer kameez and atypical choice in background flora. While the woman is rendered with intricate verisimilitude, Qureshi articulates the backdrop an uncustomarily thick and pervasive cerulean blue that extinguishes the boundary between the ground and the sky.

Virginia Whiles writes of the artist: “Ardently committed to the miniature tradition as a living practice, [Qureshi] plays with its formal conventions, stripping down any unnecessary ornament with the same intellectual rigour she applies to deflating officious rhetoric,” (Whiles, Art and Polemic in Pakistan: Cultural Politics and Tradition in Contemporary Miniature Painting, London, 2010, p. 90).