Biography

Saadia Batool, born in 1998 in Quetta, Pakistan, graduated in Fine Arts from the National College of Art Lahore in 2022, majoring in Painting. Her artistic journey has been deeply rooted in the exploration of archives, personal histories and the collective memory of her community “Hazara”, viewed in the realm of migration.

The visuals that Saadia has chosen to depict are developed in layers with mixed media on canvas; creating textures, depth and nuance through layering. She has developed multilayered visuals through photo transfer technique, translucent acrylic paints, inks and natural pigments, graphite, charcoal, markers, pencil colours and other drawing materials. The paintings primarily consist of layering by deliberately treating mediums to create luminous strata that preserve the visual identity of each layer but also blend into a unified visual, bringing forth an enigmatic visual vocabulary of the artist.