Nusra latif qureshi biography of williams
Nusra Latif Qureshi attended the National College of Arts, Lahore and completed her Masters of Fine Art at the University of Melbourne..
Nusra Latif Qureshi's ruminations on the feminine form are drawn from the rich literary and visual traditions of south Asia.
Nusra Latif Qureshi
She layers appropriated imagery from colonial photography, patterns from Middle Eastern textiles or the Arts and Crafts movement, silhouettes and botanical paintings; these elements combine to comprise the backgrounds and foregrounds of isolated female figures.
Moving to Australia for postgraduate study in 2001, Qureshi’s position as a migrant woman in Australian society has added new layers to her explorations as she continues to push the conventional boundaries of her art form.
She was included in the 5th Asia-Pacific Triennial in 2006, and has exhibited widely in the UK, the United States, Australia and Pakistan.
Qureshi lives in Melbourne.
Reflective Looking
An expanded notion of self in the work of Nusra Latif Qureshi
Over the past fifteen years Nusra Latif Qureshi has worked extensively with the tropes and language of Indo-Persian miniature and Company painting, and nineteenth century conventions of portrait photography, to explor
