Nisha Hasan lives and divides her time in Lahore and Sahiwal. She graduated from the National College of Arts, Lahore, in 2011, majoring in painting. Since then, she has done numerous courses from the King’s Foundation, School of Traditional Arts, London. She paints primarily in egg tempera and has started developing parallel research in pigment making, traditional materials, and techniques and their contemporary context. She is currently engaged as a visiting faculty at the National College of Arts, Lahore. Her work looks at abandonment (of spaces, humans, animals, plants, and objects) as immediate action and ruination (from neglect, desertion, decay, and disease) as a process. The references and materials for her work come from but are not limited to poetry and literature, photographs and negatives, family archives, and pre-owned objects.
