SHAZIA AHMAD she/her
Trinkets (Marine Garden) (2025) / Trinkets (Toad and Columbine) (2025) / Trinkets (Peony and Lemon Balm) (2025) / Abundance (2023) / Papier-mâché, Gesso, Flashe, Screen-print on muslin with cotton-polyester thread / 91 x 36 cm
Made from papier-mâché, then covered in gesso and painted using Flashe latex paint, two pots imitate the shape of a traditional Pakistani clay pot called a matka, and one resembles both a matka and a typical planter (some traditional matka shapes look like planters).
The set is accompanied by a two-colour screen-printed tablecloth with an original pattern that I designed.
Bio
Shazia Ahmad is a half-Pakistani, half-Chilean painter and printmaker living in Brossard, Québec. Her work explores themes of home and belonging, reflecting on the broader concept of otherness shaped by her interfaith and mixed-race background.
She has exhibited her work nationally and internationally at the Society of Northern Alberta Print-Artists (Edmonton, 2025), Le Centre culturel Georges-Vanier (Montreal, 2025), The Rooms (St. John’s, NL, 2023), Grenfell Art Gallery (Corner Brook, NL, 2024), the Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal (2022), and Unit 1 Gallery (London, UK, 2022), among others.
She is the recipient of several Canada Council for the Arts and City of St. John’s grants, and was the 2021–22 Don Wright Scholar at St. Michael’s Printshop in St. John’s, NL. She has a forthcoming studio residency at JANO Gallery in Montreal.
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