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Now open at the Art Gallery of New South Wales
Nusra Latif Qureshi: Birds in Far Pavilions
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The long awaited survey exhibition of Nusra Latif Qureshi's work is now open at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Curated by Matt Cox, the exhibition brings together work from across thirty years of the Lahore-born and Naarm-based artist's multidisciplinary practice.
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At once beautiful and challenging, Qureshi’s works insist on the indelible presence of history and the persistence of trauma, dislocation and loss. Awarded the Bulgari Art Award from the Art Gallery of New South Wales in 2019, the exhibition takes place in the museum's Naala Nura building and traces the development of Qureshi's practice from meticulously painted vignettes to expansive three-dimensional textile works.
Delving into the rich and complex histories of visual culture in both Pakistan and Australia, Qureshi's work bears witness to the multitudinous conflicts of colonialism and their ever evolving legacies in contemporary experiences of place. Featuring early works succeeding her graduation from the National Art School in Lahore in the 1990s, the exhibition culminates with a newly commissioned sculptural installation that integrates objects from the Art Gallery of New South Wales' extensive collection of historical artefacts to engage with the politics of institutional collecting and display practices.
Nusra Latif Qureshi: Birds in Far Pavilions
9 November 2024 – 15 June 2025
Art Gallery of New South Wales
Naala Nura, Lower level 2
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Sutton Gallery Online Exhibition
Nusra Latif Qureshi: Reaching Out
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To coincide with the artist's landmark exhibition at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sutton Gallery is pleased to present Reaching out, an online viewing room highlighting important works by the artist.
Spotlighting Qureshi's depiction of hands as motif whose significance proliferates across the artist's entire oeuvre, Reaching out locates the hand as a generative entry point to unpack broader themes of presence, representation, and absence throughout Qureshi's work.
Through passages and quotes from art historians, curators and the artist herself reflecting on the importance of the motif in Qureshi's practice, the viewing room brings together exquisitely rendered, rarely seen before artworks spanning the past two decades.
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On the occasion of her first survey exhibition in Australia, the Art Gallery of New South Wales has published an insightful and richly illustrated publication that traverses the influences and trajectory of Qureshi's ambitious artistic career.
With detailed reproductions of over 100 works alongside historic archival imagery and photography, the publication includes newly commissioned essays by Art Gallery of New South Wales director Michael Brand, Curator of Asian Art at the Art Gallery of New South Wales Matt Cox, academic Sugata Ray, arts writer Julie Ewington, curator Esa Epstein, and philosopher and psychoanalyst Robyn Adler.
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Images: Nusra Latif Qureshi, On the edges of darkness II, 2016, Art Gallery of New South Wales Collection; Nusra Latif Qureshi, Ascendents to cloud nine-I, 2023, Photo Andrew Curtis; Nusra Latif Qureshi, Accomplished Missions III (Right panel), 2012, Photo Andrew Curtis; Nusra Latif Qureshi, Order of the Spoils, 2012; Image of Nusra Latif Qureshi: Birds in Far Pavilions exhibition publication, © Art Gallery of New South Wales 2024; Nusra Latif Qureshi, A very subtle painting in green, 2022, Private Collection, Photo Andrew Curtis.
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