Dialogue I

Farrah is a graduate of the National College of Arts (NCA) Lahore and specializes in Asian miniature painting, specifically in the style of Mughal miniatures of the Subcontinent. 

Farrah has participated in more than 160 national and international group exhibitions, including those held in the U.S.A., Canada, U.K., Austria, France, Hong Kong, China, Baku (Azerbaijan), Tehran, Jeddah, India, Bangladesh, the U.A.E., Bahrain, and Greece. She has also had 4 solo exhibitions. Farrah has recently received the prestigious President’s Award for Pride of Performance 2024. She received the Excellence Award from Beaconhouse National (BNU) in December 2023, “Charles Wallace Visiting Fellowship Award (UK)” for excellence in the field of traditional miniature art. The magazine selected 100 women in Pakistan who have made a change through their work and awarded them the “Best Women Role Model Award 2016.

Surroundings fascinate Farah as an artist. We are part of society, which is a combination of emotions of pain, happiness, and joy. Her work conveys messages through symbols, colors, and connections. She uses symbols like the lotus flower, which represents the purity of a female, and the rebirth, or self-regeneration, in many eastern religions. With the tree, she symbolizes herself as part of society. The tree is sensitive and twisted with deep roots, which shows her natural bond with society.