Nusra Latif Qureshi: Birds in Far Pavilions

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On the occasion of her first major solo exhibition, charting the Pakistan-born Australian artists 30-year career and her finely crafted contemporary miniature paintings.

Born in 1973, Nusra Latif Qureshi is a Melbourne-based artist best known for her finely crafted contemporary miniature paintings.

Drawing on both historical and contemporary references, Qureshi works in the space between tradition and experimentation, in a practice that extends to collage and photography. Born in Pakistan, she trained at the National College of Arts in Lahore, where she learnt the painting traditions that had been brought to the Mughal courts from Persia in the 16th century and developed in the region.

Publishing on the occasion of the artists first major solo exhibition, Nusra Latif Qureshi: Birds in Far Pavilions, held at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, this book traces Qureshis 30-year career, from her early paintings in Lahore, in which she began to reimagine traditional forms, to their zenith beyond the page and into 3D sculpture with a new commissioned installation.

Richly illustrated with over 100 works and historic archival imagery/photography, and accompanied by insightful essays by Art Gallery of New South Wales exhibition curator Matt Cox and director Michael Brand, academic Sugata Ray, arts writer Julie Ewington, curator Esa Epstein, and philosopher and psychoanalyst Robyn Adler.

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Matt Cox is curator of Asian art at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, where he is broadly engaged with historical and contemporary art from Asia and the world. He has published widely on Asian art, photography and architecture, including publications with the National Gallery of Australia, Amsterdam University Press and National University of Singapore.