We welcomed the exhibition, Contemporary Pakistani Printmakers in 2006 as part of our wider Festival of Muslim Cultures Print project. This project was under the umbrella of the national year-long Festival of Muslim Cultures project to celebrate and foster an improved understanding and appreciation for Muslim cultures.
The exhibition opened at the Oriel Ceri Richards gallery in Swansea, launching SPW onto an international platform, and then went on to tour three venues around the UK.
Supporting the exhibition was tri-lingual exhibition catalogue, published in English, Welsh and Urdu featuring work from the exhibiting Pakistani Printmakers: Fatima Saeed | Laila Rahman | Afshar Malik | Anwar Saeed | Muhammad Atif Khan | Imran Ahmad | Naiza Khan | Naazish Ata-Ullah | Sameera Khan | Samina Iqbal | Zaira Ahmand | Ali Raza
The exhibition also provided a focus for Outreach activities in the project programme which offered opportunities to students and community groups to create artwork around the theme, ‘Image and Symbol and Text’.
Further information can be found in Completed Project Archives about the Festival of Muslim Cultures Print project, the sister exhibition, Contemporary Welsh Printmakers, which was shown in Karachi and Lahore, Pakistan in 2007 along with many more of our past projects.