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My work process starts by gathering pictures, screenshots and jotting down notes over a period of time. These are pictures and screenshots of the maps of places I frequently visit and places I use as getaways from my monotonous routine.I rarely begin my work by making final sketches of the artwork; most of the time, it is the outcome of the whole process. Instead, I start with transferring the saved images/sketches into different small key models. Then, I let the process lead by experimenting with different materials, primarily with cutting/pasting and carving wasli. Sometimes beginning of an artwork is as simple as constructing a line or a circle on the surface, or a study of shapes or negative space or transferring the whole map on the surface, or it is just an exercise to explore the medium's possibilities.The whole procedure also stimulates the conceptual aspect of the work. It is sometimes derived from the reference, the process or the similarities between the process, the act of creating art, and the work's reference. Those transferred images and key models then serve as an inspiration for the final work, and sometimes it becomes just a part of the process.
Biography Tahira Noreen is a visual artist based in Islamabad, Pakistan. She graduated with honours in painting from the National College of Arts, Lahore. Tapping into the unrestricted journey that her inner creativity takes her on, her pieces are a mixture of various mediums and textures, a direct reflection of the various experiences that she encounters during her daily life and travels.Tahira’s work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally. Her work has been part of various group shows in Pakistan, Spain and London. She was a participating artist in ‘Creatives in Residence’, an artist in residence program in Hangzhou, China, in 2012. She was shortlisted for BIG Awards 2019 at Cagebcn, Barcelona and also received the “curators award” for her work in “ we are all here”, an exhibition on maps and mapping in living artists work.
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