The students of Institute of Art & Design (IAD), University of Sindh Jamshoro portrayed new horizons of thought and novel ideas in amazing colours and forms amid an air of festivity at the institution's Degree Show 2014 that opened here on Wednesday. Students through their works tried to highlight various socio political issues mainly focusing gender, women empowerment, and child marriages and growing aggression in society through their body of work.
Inaugurated by the acting vice-chancellor Professor Dr Parveen Shah, the Degree Show was attended by Dean Faculty of Arts Professor Dr Javed Iqbal, Dr Mehmood Mughal, Dr Misbah Bibi, Saeed Mangi and a number of students, their relatives, friends and artists. Incharge Director of the institute Naimatullah Khilji welcomed the guests. The activity was going on all over the building of institute since three departments including communication design, textile design & fine arts had put on display the thesis work of their students.
There was a great deal of diversity in the works of students belonging to different cultural backgrounds and places. The event could be considered the largest ever exhibition organised by the Institute of Art & Design, University of Sindh, under one roof spanning over some two weeks. The work of students from all three IAD departments, including fine arts, textile design, and communication design put on display.
The fine arts department displayed work by 2 young inspiring artists with majors in sculpture, printmaking, painting and miniature painting. Work of some 13 students of textile design department and 13 of communication design was part of the exhibition. Though the products are completely different from each other, they have a strong common element of utility. Among the products is cutlery for the disabled, a load bearing body extension, a smart kitchen and bags.
The students - Syeda Urooj, Muhammad Ali Khan Jaroli, Asad Javed Arain, Asmat Mughal, Sadia Zahra and Mansoor Ali Mangi said that they had been working at developing their products for six months each. All of them planned to work for at least a year before pursuing higher education.
Talking to the newsmen, Iqra Mushtaq said that she had tried "to promote independent eating for the disabled", especially children between seven and 19 years of age. For research, she visited several special children's schools and met other children at various hospitals. She also consulted several physiotherapists before finalising the design. She hoped that her creation will help make eating time fun and painless for special children.
Qandeel Mazhar has challenged "conventional handbag design" by designing "multi-purpose" hand bags, clutches, organisers, and drum bags in leatherette, also called artificial leather. Each bag has a unique shape and carries imprints of emblems she says have been taken from Islamic art on shrines. She says the three elements of design - calligraphy, geometry and floral patterns - have always inspired her. She has used black, silver and copper colours, which she says are three important families in the Islamic colour palette after green and gold.
There are 'convertible' bags, too, which can be turned into a clutch from a hand bag "if there is a sudden plan for a dinner after work". She hopes to give Pakistani fashion market a new label that is classy, affordable and represents Islamic art. For now, she has labelled her brand Kief - Persian for handbag. The annual degree show which would be on view from March 11 to 16. The gallery will be open from 9am to 5pm daily. A private preview of the show will be organised on next for senior artists.
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