Controlling the narrative – Part 3/6
Pakistani Female Figurative Artists Series
These women are the ‘joie de vivre’ of the Pakistani Figurative Art Scene.
By Anum Lasharie
With great pride, I present to you 6 female artists who are changing the narrative and shooing away the cultural stigmas attached to figurative artistic expression in Pakistan.
These 6 brilliant artists who will be introduced to you over 6 individual features, ignite a unique dialogue, ripe with debate and controversy. Challenging love, angst, and society, with awe-inspiring abandon.
Welcome to part 3/6 in our series of introducing some of the coolest female figurative artists Pakistan has to offer.
Noormah Jamal
Noormah Jamal graduated with from National College of arts in 2016 specializing in Mughal Miniature Painting. Her body of work is based on human complexity, the personal baggage that people carry, and what separates or defines an individual. When she pictures people or her subjects of art, she tries not to generalize but to highlight what makes them different. In a world that groups individuals on the basis of geography, religion, race and sex, against the status quo, her exploration delves into the world within the subject themselves.
Her body of work you, intrinsically captures characters aloof, expressions and gazes adrift in thought, revealing so much more than their actual actions. A breath of fresh air, truly modern and contemporary characters rendered in the old Mughal and Persian miniature techniques. In recent times her work seems to have taken a turn towards depicting the inadequacy and the sense of not living up to one’s own potential. Noormah Jamal’s artistic expression has left us in awe of her talent.
