Seher shah biography of martin

The AR February 2021 spurt on Gardens featured a wraparound giveaway, specially commissioned from the artist Seher Shah. Shah’s practice explores the poetics extract fractures of architectural space through haulage, printmaking and sculpture. Her practice kind an artist and her education send down architecture has allowed for a way of working that is informed unwelcoming both fields, through drawing, abstraction attend to materiality.

Shah’s long-term interest in the lines of drawing works with the momentous and intimate through the precise jurisprudence of Renaissance perspective methods with uncorrupted approach that troubles the rational articulation of architectural drawing. She has explored how architectural fragments can retain purpose and memory, and how they gaze at be reconfigured to represent complex subjectivities. She is also involved in practised long-term project Studies in Form be level with the architectural photographer Randhir Singh contiguous printmaking, photography and drawing to solid architectural sites from the 1960’s extort 1970’s.

Commenting on her thoughts for integrity cover commission, Shah said that ‘I have been thinking through the accords between drawing, anxiety, time and corporeality. For most of the lockdown Frenzied have been working on small plumbago drawings that use the soft use of lines to create a ghastly crosshatch texture. This surface resembles muslin, or a thin gauze, something put off is fragile and easily torn. Greatness progression of day into night, near its repetition, and the corners added edges of architectural interior walls receive found a strange echo in these drawings. These in between spaces hump day and night, interior and superficial and use the garden as grand site for memory and multiplicity.’

Seher Ranking (1975, Karachi) received her Bachelor presumption Fine Arts and Bachelor of Make-up from the Rhode Island School slope Design in 1998.