Wardha Shabbir: ‘I’m there to absorb’

Lahore’s distinctive yellow light.

Wardha Shabbir (b. 1987, Lahore, Pakistan) lives and works in Lahore, Pakistan. She graduated with a BA in Fine Arts from the National College of Arts, Lahore in 2011, winning the Principal’s Honour Award. She is currently Visiting Lecturer in Fine Arts at the National College of Arts. Trained in traditional miniature painting, her technique consists of the coming together of countless dots as a unit to form an idea on the surface of the paper. Watch her talk about her art practice and about living and working in Lahore.

Wardha’s latest exhibition ‘Green Matter’ is currently on at the Canvas Gallery in Karachi.