VISUAL ART I DESIGN I CRAFT
SAHR BASHIR
Exhibitions
2022 Group Show for SALA ‘Odds & Ends’, Zu Design Gallery, Adelaide.
2021 Group Show, SASA Gallery, University of South Australia, Adelaide
2020 Group Show for Fringe Festival "All Creatures Great & Small', Pepper Street Arts Centre, Adelaide.
2020 Group Show for 'Knowledge' exhibition, Pepper Street Arts Centre, Adelaide.
2019 Group Show ‘Christmas Gifs’, Zu Design Gallery, Adelaide
2019 Group Show for SALA ‘Art of Texture’, Pepper Street Arts Centre, Adelaide.
2019 Group Show for SALA ‘Pins & Needles’, Zu Design Gallery, Adelaide.
2019 Group Show for Climate Change, Urban Cow Art Prize, Urban Cow Gallery, Adelaide.
2018 Group Show, Urban Cow Art Prize, Urban Cow Gallery, Adelaide.
2018 Group Show for SALA ‘Patterns’, Zu Design Gallery, Adelaide.
2018 Artist of the Month, Pepper Street Art Gallery, Adelaide, Australia.
2018 Group show, Kaminski Art Gallery, Hahndorf, South Australia.
2017 Group show 'Metal-Ink' Project, UniSA, Adelaide
2016 Group Show ‘Naughty or Nice’, Zu Design Gallery, Adelaide.
2015 Solo show of Jewelry Collection for ‘The Iqra Project’ at Pakistan Fashion Week, Lahore
2013 Group show for The Beijing International Jewelry Exhibition, Beijing International Design Week, Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology (BIFT), Beijing, China.
2012 Group show, No Man’s Land Gallery, Delhi, India.
2012 Group show at Monsoon Festival, Alliance Francaise, Delhi, India
Awards
2016-2020 Ambassador for Pakistan, Art Jewelry Forum (www.artjewelryforum.org)
2014 Recipient of Australian Alumni Excellence Award for Education 2014 by the Government of Australia, presented by the High Commissioner of Australia.
2013 Nominated for MacJannet Prize 2013 Honorable Mention Award by Talloires Network, Tufts University for the ‘Humnawa’ Skills Development Project.
Creative Workshops
2020 ‘Sustainable Jewels’ Jewellery Workshop, Pepper Street Arts Centre, Adelaide*
2020 ‘Be Charmed’ Jewellery Workshop, Pepper Street Arts Centre, Adelaide*
2020 ‘Art of Chain making’ Jewellery Workshop, Pepper Street Arts Centre, Adelaide
2019 ‘Art of Chain making’ Jewellery Workshop, Hand Spinners & Weavers Guild, Adelaide
2019 ‘Art of Chain making’ Jewellery Workshop, Pepper Street Arts Centre, Adelaide
2019 ‘Its a Wrap’ Jewellery Workshop, Pepper Street Arts Centre, Adelaide
2019 Paper Jewellery Workshop, Gallery 1855, Adelaide
2019 ‘StART Arts’ Jewellery Workshop, Pepper Street Arts Centre, Adelaide
2018 ‘Explore Arts’ Jewellery Workshop, Carclew, Adelaide, Australia
2018 ‘Contemporary Jewellery Workshop’, Marden Senior College, Adelaide, Australia
2018 ArtWorks Contemporary Jewelry Workshops, in collaboration with Guildhouse & City of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia
2018 ‘StART Arts’ Jewellery Workshop, Pepper Street Arts Centre, Adelaide
2107 Contemporary Jewelry Workshops, School of Art, Architecture & Design, University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia
2014 Raku Ceramic Workshop with Nabahat Lotia, School of Visual Art & Design, Lahore, Pakistan
2012 MicroMosiac Glass workshop with Leonard Nolan, School of Visual Arts & Design, Lahore, Pakistan
2011 Workshop in Precious Metal Clay with Lisle Skriker, Dubai International Art Centre, Dubai
Skills Training
Skills and Product Development for ‘The Iqra Project’ with Labour & Love Pakistan 2015-16
Skills Training and Product Development for women in Muzaffargarh (South Punjab) in collaboration with PSDF (Punjab Skills Development Fund) 2012
Design, Implementation and Training through Certificate Courses in various trade skills (wood crafting, chain making, stamping and etching, fashion accessories), Beaconhouse National University, Lahore, Pakistan, 2012-13
Training workshop in the Traditional Art of Vessel making with Michael Boy in collaboration Anne Marie Schimmel-Haus, Goethe Institute, Lahore, Pakistan 2011
Master Trainer for Product & Design development for Bahawalpur Craftsmen (South Punjab) with AHAN, SMEDA (Small & Medium Enterprise Development Authority), Lahore, 2006
Recent Publications
Book Chapter
2018 Bashir, S 2018, ‘Unapologetic: A perspective on contemporary jewellery in Pakistan’, Marigold Garland Compendium, Garland Magazine, Melbourne, Australia, pp.33-36
Journal Articles
2023 Bashir, S 2023, ‘ Mann-o-Salwa- Savouring the Food of the Heavens’, Garland Magazine, Issue 30, 2023,
https://garlandmag.com/article/mann-o-salwaa-savouring-the-food-of-the-heavens/
2019 Bashir, S 2019, ‘ Dekh Magar Pyaar Say- Meanderings into the Sublime’, Garland Magazine, Issue 16, 2019,
https://garlandmag.com/article/dekh-magar-pyaar-say/
2019 Bashir, S 2019, ‘ To Have and To Hold: Precious objects from a place called Home’, Garland Magazine, Issue 14, 2019
https://garlandmag.com/article/to-have-and-to-hold/
2017 Bashir, S 2017, ‘And They Lived Happily Ever After: Object narratives from a land far away’, Garland Magazine, Issue 9, 2017
2017 Bashir, S 2017, ‘A Labour of Love: The Humnawa Project’, Garland Magazine, Issue 6, 2017
http://garlandmag.com/article/a-labour-of-love-the-humnawa-project/
2016 Bashir, S 2016, ‘Unapologetic: A perspective on contemporary jewellery in Pakistan’, Garland Magazine, Issue 5, 2016
http://garlandmag.com/article/contemporary-jewellery-in-pakistan/