Various subjects were selected by the artists. They range from psychological issues such as a person's image in the eyes of others and anxiety to grey abstractions to a hint of narcissism. It is abundantly clear that all of them are technically sound. Despite being busy with their work schedules, they have not stopped painting. They have chosen drawing as a medium to express their feeling regarding certain issues that may be related to their past or present. They talked with the help of lines in between lines.
For Abdul Malik Channa Art lovers are a true source of motivation for an artist to create and produce artwork. Therefore he love and enjoy their expressions, indulgence and the gesture of love for art when they visit an art gallery. His work is a tribute to the respected art lovers, admirers and supporters of the artists. For him, "The Art lovers and admirers are as important as Art itself."
Ayesha Naveed's images showed her interest, concern and confusion about the state of affairs of the country. The work also acknowledged changing systems and structures in hope of a better future. By interplay of materials she propelled ideas and notions she portrayed individuals shaping and creating history thus leading to defining moments in time.
Danish Ahmed chose charcoal to use the flexibility and versatility of the medium. Moving away from the conventional and linear approach to drawing he smudged, erased, masked and smeared in order to construct the desired forms. The material world man has created for his own consumption forced nature to recede from being a vital part of our life imposing restrictions and limitations on it.
Khalid Soomro communicated with the society through his work. Following a phrase 'Art is a Dialogue' he re-constructed the historical sculptures and images, which depicted current time and conditions because history repeats itself in different paradigms thus trying to generate a dialogue between past and present.
Drawing process is a therapy and meditation for Munawar Ali Syed. He wanted viewers to pay attention towards urban materialistic life that resulted as a relationship we have with contemporary education. The tension between urban and natural environment is growing day by day always battling to coexist. Materialistic life seduces people while their body and soul demands to be with nature.
Raheela Abro was inspired by the round objects as roundness hides the initiating and culminating points hence keep a life cycle going as an end can not be determined. Shazia Qureshi recorded her feelings and emotions about her surroundings through lines, marks, tone, texture and spaces which reflected illusion of life. She was fascinated by fluid mediums such as water colour, tea wash and ink as they defy the control required in the drawing process, exactly like life defies all norms and presets.
Sheema Khan represented 3d object in 2d surface by doing observational drawing. She used drawing for researching; investigating, developing and communicating ideas. So for this purpose she has simply drawn a subject in front of her.
S M Raza described life he talked about impermanent nature of people, places and things in his artworks beautifully. Some times time for a certain period help the living things flourish and groom but after that limit the decaying process of living things also starts thus nobody can escape ravages of time. And therefore everything is changing every single moment.
Yasmeen Salman took inspiration from the surrounding environment. By using various processes and techniques - graphite, colour pencils, watercolour, gilding, pastiche, tea/coffee staining and gouache she achieved her desired results.
She also involved her family and friends in her work by including their different ideas and diverse perspectives which in return gave a unique dimension to her work extending the symbolic language from the intrapersonal to interpersonal. Thus her imagery imbued with current concerns and query, and evaluating and reflecting on past as well as present beliefs and philosophy.
It was a unique drawing show as all artists were members of faculty of different institutions. So their work reflected the kind of knowledge, information and wisdom their students were benefiting from.