Tabeena Wani
Tabeena Wani Tabeena Wani is a visual artist from Kashmir. She has a Bachelor of Visual Arts from the University of Kashmir and is a recipient of the 2018 TATA trust Students’ Biennale National Award. She’s also a Fearless Collective South Asian Public Art resident of 2020. Tabeena has exhibited her work at the Kochi […]
Mujtaba Rizvi
Mujtaba Rizvi Mujtaba Rizvi is an internationally recognised artist, curator, and creative professional. He is from Srinagar Kashmir, where he was based until October 2019, and then had to migrate out of the city due to intense lockdown imposed on Kashmir post abrogation on Article 370. His involvement with the arts as an artist has […]
Sohail Naqshbandi
Suhail Naqshbandi Editorial and news features offer a meaty scope for an illustrator to work on. News art is a very interesting field, where an artist is able to take a writer’s point of view and turn it around into an engaging visual interpretation. Naqsh loved doing illustration based covers for a weekly Kashmir Ink. With varied topics to work on, […]
Saqib Butt
Saqib Butt This performance examines how surveillance, essentially a practice of social intervention, becomes a channel in inducing violence, trauma, hardship and socio-economic suffering which causes individuals to adjust their behaviour and routines to save themselves from harassment. In this piece, the set up is such that the performers, placed at the entrance, frisk viewers […]
Mir Suhail
Mir Suhail Mir Suhail (born 25 June 1989) is a political cartoonist from Jammu and Kashmir. During April 2015 Nepal earthquake Qadri’s cartoon on biased media coverage of Indian media went viral on social networking sites after Nepal social media users criticized mainstream Indian media for insensitive coverage and started a trend on Twitter and […]
Masrat Zahra
Masrat Zahra In Kashmir, generations of children have grown up amidst politically charged surroundings and anxieties of survival. It is often said in jest, colloquially, that a Kashmiri child holds more nuance in the tip of their little finger than an adult in the Indian mainland. The minds of children are impacted by their environment […]
Mahum Shabir
Mahum Shabir Before I knew much else about where I had grown up, I knew it was “paradise on earth”. It hard to say exactly when the notion took hold in the minds of people, though the exact words – firdous baroye zameen – are attributed to a Mughal king from the seventeenth century. That […]
Khytul Abyad
Khytul Abyad Khytul Abyad is a visual artist who draws and writes about the toll of conflict on human life in Kashmir. She graduated in Bachelors of Fine art (Applied Art) from Kashmir University (2016) and pursued her Master’s degree in Art and Design from Beaconhouse National University Lahore. Khytul is currently based in Kashmir […]
Gaekhir Republik
Gaekhir Republik The music we create or the position from which that music is created is intimately personal. It is those afflictions, griefs, worries, and hopes—that strike us most personally and feel inexplicable in any other form—that we express through our music. It is an expression of our own triviality in the face of overwhelming […]
Ehtisham Azhar
Ehtisham Azhar Ehtisham Azhar is currently a Ph.D. scholar at the University of Melbourne, Australia, having completed his Master’s degree from Manchester School of Art under Manchester Metropolitan University in the year 2017 and had completed his Bachelors under the UMISAA SAF- Madanjeet Singh Group Scholarship for Fine Art (UNESCO), BNU, Lahore, Pakistan. His practice […]