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Details
- Date
- 2001
- Media category
- Painting
- Materials used
- gouache and gold leaf on wasli
- Dimensions
- 35.0 x 24.7 cm image; 37.5 x 28.0 cm sheet
- Credit
- Art Gallery of New South Wales, Bulgari Art Award 2019
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 193.2019
- Copyright
- © Nusra Latif Qureshi
- Artist information
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Nusra Latif Qureshi
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About
Nusra Latif Qureshi's paintings sometimes have a protagonist that suggests an autobiographical element. 'Descriptions from the past II' was painted soon after Qureshi arrived in Melbourne in 2001 to undertake post-graduate study at the Victorian College of the Arts. A figure that resembles the artist stands with two golden orbs above her, hovering worlds which she finds herself caught between. Qureshi's experience as a migrant to Australia negotiating a new society and finding her identity here as an artist informs this work. Of the group of Qureshi's paintings in the Gallery's collection, this one is closest stylistically to her initial training in Lahore.
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Exhibition history
Shown in 2 exhibitions
Nusra Latif Qureshi: Intentions of memory, Joshua McClelland Print Room, Australia, 26 May 2005 -
20th-Century galleries, lower level 1 (rehang), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 20 Aug 2022–2023