For two decades, the Lahore-based School of Visual Arts and Design has produced graduates from the neighbourhood who have imbibed its rich cultural tapestry.
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The sense of being ‘South Asian’ has seeped into the consciousness of artists and designers trained in Lahore. They find common linkages long after they have left when they find themselves co-exhibiting in art fairs, galleries, and museums.
December 13, 2020
David Alesworth trained several generations of Pakistani artists at the Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture, Karachi, from 1991 to 2002
Anyone not familiar with a man called Lieutenant TG Carless, would assume that the title of David Alesworth’s recent show, The Carless Mapping, is either a typo for careless mapping, or about cartography without using a motorcar. Instead, the exhibition (December 1-10, 2020, Canvas Gallery, Karachi) refers to Mr Carless “who painstakingly mapped Karachi harbour in 1837-38, as a commission for the East India Company”.
However, without misreading the show’s title, one can still add other meanings into the works of Alesworth, a British-born artist, who painstakingly trained several generations of Pakistani artists, as the head of sculpture at the Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture, Karachi, from 1991 to 2002. “Alesworth is a sculptor, photographer and researcher of garden histories, working between Pakista