Lahore Arts Council organized exhibition for young artists

Lahore : Lahore Arts Council took this initiative fifteen years back to provide a platform for young artists to display their artworks from any regions of the country of any medium and with unique concepts under one roof. Through this exhibition, Lahore Arts Council (Alhamra) provides a platform to young artists for displaying their artworks and they gain recognition in the field of visual arts through receiving Young Artists’ Award which is considered as one of the most prestigious award given to young artists by any government on non-government organization for exhibiting their best artworks.

This was a great opportunity for young artists therefore the upper age limit was reduced to 32 years instead of 35 years this year for submitting artworks in this exhibition.

Alhamra Art Gallery has received approximately 600 artworks from all over the created by 362 artists from Jamshoro, Bhakar, Hyderabad, Rawalpindi, Sialkot, Islamabad, Kasur, Gujrat, Swabi, Bahawalpur, Peshawar, Faisalabad, Dera Ismail Khan, Gujranwala, Sargodha, Chiniot and many other parts from the country.

Artworks in mediums like painting, sculpture, installation, video, ceramic, miniature painting, drawings, printmaking and video were on displayed. The exhibition was very well curated by Zulfiqar Ali Zulfi (Director, Arts & Culture) and Minaa Haroon (Assistant Director).

Mian Ijaz ul Hassan, Chairman of Artists Association of Punjab was the chief guest of award distribution ceremony and inaugurated the exhibition.

The award distribution ceremony was held in Hall number 2 of Alhamra Art Centre on 10^th April at 04:00 pm and was followed by the opening of exhibition and exhibition will remain open till 26^thApril 2019 and all the artworks will be on sale for public.

Jury members for judging the competition were Ghulam Mustafa (General Secretary, Artists’ Association of Punjab), Quddus Mirza (Professor and Head of Fine Arts Department, National College of Arts), Rahat Naveed Masood (Ex. Principal College of Arts and Design)and R M Naeem (Assistant Professor, National College of Arts).

Top ten best artworks received cash prizes of ten thousand each along with certificates and shields for submitting remarkable artworks for this exhibition. Ariba Hamid, Haya Zahra, Maryam Farooq, Sana Waqar, Sana Khalil, Sanie Bokhari, Sidra Liaqat, Tehreem Sarfraz, Yaseen Khan and Zoha Zafar Malik for submitting remarkable artworks for this exhibition and Laraib Rizvi and Rizwan un Nabi were given consolation prizes.

Audience is thrilled to see the diversity of artworks that are on display and the amount of effort visual artists are doing in the field of visual arts. Every artwork is exclusively phenomenal from one another. This exhibition is creating a dialogue about our youth conceptual understanding of the world and highlighting their creative energies and minds to speak about their perspectives individually and collectively.

“This Young Artists’ Exhibition provides a platform for the young and artistic youth for exhibiting their works to a larger audience at national level. The Lahore Arts Council is thankful to all the artists for their participation in this exhibition with a great amount of enthusiasm. I would like to congratulate all the winners who have received the Ten Best Artworks award.  We hope to continue this exhibition for upcoming years with more zeal and improvement.” Ather Ali Khan, Executive Director, Lahore Arts Council.