David Chalmers Alesworth

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Curriculum Vitae

David Chalmers Alesworth A.R.B.S.

Art Training:
Brooklands Technical College, UK 1974-1976
Epsom School of Art and Design, UK 1976-1977
Wimbledon School of Art, BA. Hons Fine Art Sculpture, UK 1977-1980
Picker Fellowship in Sculpture,
Kingston University, Kingston-Upon -Thames, UK 1980-1981
Transart Institute, Berlin/NYC, MFA New Media 2007-2010

Experience:
Visiting lecturer, Kingston University Sculpture Dept., UK 1982
Lecturer Glasgow School of Art, UK
Sculpture Dept & Foundation Year 1981-1983
Moved to Karachi, Pakistan, June 1988
Lecturer in Sculpture, Indus Valley School of Art & Architecture,
Karachi 1989
Advisor, Art Syllabus revision for Sind Board of Technical Education,
Karachi. 1992
Act. Head of Fine Art Dept., Indus Valley School of Art &
Architecture, Karachi 1993
Elected member of the Royal Society of British Sculptors R.B.S. 1994
Study tour of various Indian art schools, including, Baroda School of Art,
N.I.D Ahmadabad, J.J. School Bombay. 1996
Coordinator Fine Art Dept. Indus Valley School of Art & Architecture, Karachi 1996-98
Head of Foundation, Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture, Karachi
Study tour of various Australian Art schools, including: RMIT
Melbourne, Univ. of South Australia, Queensland Univ. of Technology, Brisbane. 1999
Study tour of various French Art schools and institutions including
Ecole de Beaux Art, Aix, & public artists groups in the south of France. 1999
Member Academic Council Beaconhouse National University 2002
Admissions Board member Ziauddin University 2003
Juror Karafilm Festival 2005
Associate professor S.V.A., BNU, Lahore 2006
Horticultural Consultant to Agha Khan Cultural Services, Pakistan 2009-

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Shows:
Guildford University, UK 1978
New Contemporaries ICA, Institute Of Contemporary Art, ACGB, London, UK 1978
G.L.A.A. Cannizaro Park, Wimbledon Common, UK 1978-1982
G.L.A.A. Hounslow Civic Centre, UK 1981
One person Show, Kingston University, UK 1981
Hayward Annual A.C.G.B., London UK 1982
One person Show, Glasgow School Of Art, UK 1983
Rufford Open Northern Arts, UK 1987
Ziggurat Gallery, Karachi 1992
Ziggurat Gallery, Karachi 1993
National Gallery, Islamabad 1993
6th National Exhibition Islamabad 1994
(Awarded Silver Medal for Sculpture)
7th National Exhibition Islamabad 1996
Art Caravan, Touring Exhibition, Pakistan 1994
Six Artists, Rohtas Gallery, Islamabad 1994
National College of Art Gallery, Lahore 1995
Pakistan National Council for the Arts Gallery, Islamabad 1995
Indus Gallery Karachi 1995
Indus Valley School of Art & Architecture Gallery 1995
Punjab Art Association, Alhamra Complex, Lahore 1995
Kunj Art Gallery, Karachi 1995-1996
Container 96: Copenhagen, Denmark 1996
Selected Pakistani Artists, Birmingham 1996
"City Flowers" Denmark, Video Project 1996
Group show, Rohtas Gallery. Islamabad 1996
"High, Low and In between", AN Gallery, Karachi 1997
"The Longer Now", AN Gallery, Karachi 1997
"Urban Voices” Art Fest '97, Sheraton Hotel, Karachi 1997
"Arz-e-Mauood, The Promised Lands" Frere Hall Gardens
Interactive, collaborative Installation 1997
Karachi Contemporaries AN Gallery Karachi 1998
"Urban Voices" II Art Fest '98, Sheraton Hotel, Karachi 1998
"City Flowers 2" Denmark, Video Project 1998
Exhibition of Drawings, Cafe Blue, Karachi 1998
Selected, with Durriya Kazi to represent Pakistan at
The First Fukuoka Asian Art Trienniale, Japan 1999
Art Exchange programme with Durriya Kazi and Yusuf and Sons
Fukuoka Asian Art Trienniale, Fukuoka Japan 1999
Urban Voices 111, Karachi Sheraton Hotel, 1999
The Millenium Show, Karachi Arts Council 1999
Selected, with Durriya Kazi, to represent Pakistan at
The Third Asia Pacific Trienniale, Brisbane, Australia 1999
Collaboration with Michael Lin on Magnetic Writing/Marching Ideas
IT Park Gallery, Taipei 1999
“Urban Voices III”, Karachi Pakistan 1999
“Cityscapes”, Galerie Sadequain, Karachi 1999
“The Millennium Art Show”, Arts Council of Pakistan, Karachi 1999
“Pakistan Another Vision” Brunei gallery, SOAS, UK touring show 2000
Huddersfield, Oldham, “Victoria Gallery” Bath & “Hot Bath” Gallery Bath.
“ Kara Art 2000", Alliance Francaise, Karachi 2000
"The Experimental Space" in the 90's A.C.K. 2000
“Lines of Descent” The Family in Contemporary Asian Art
Noosa, Cairns, Perc Tucker, Bundaberg and Rockhampton galleries.
QAG touring show, web site through QAG 2000-2001

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"Takhti" Project 2001
“Kara-Art 2001”, Alliance Francaise, Karachi 2001
“1St Karachi International Film Festival” (Signtology collaborative digital Video) 2001
“Speaking Out” Canvas Gallery, Karachi 2001
“Kara Art 2002” Alliance Francaise 2002
Solo show, Canvas Gallery, Karachi, 2002
“Aar Paar-2”, public art project, Delhi & Karachi 2002
“Dish Dhamaka” Amin Gulgee Gallery, Karachi 2003
8th National Exhibition, PNCA, Islamabad 2003
Herald Magazine, collaboration with Adnan Madani 2003
“Around the Miniature-2”, Lahore 2003
“Peace with India” Lahore 2003
“24 Frames per Second” 3rd KaraFilm Festival, PIIA, Karachi 2003
“Happiness” curator David Elliot, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan 2003
Inaugural exhibition -2004
“The Other” curator Quddus Mirza, National Gallery of Modern Art,
Colaba , Mumbai, India. 2005
“Foot by Foot”, Karachi Film Festival 2005
“Artist’s Voices, Calligraphy” Amin Gulgee, Gallery, Karachi 2006
“Artist’s Voices, Body” Amin Gulgee, Gallery, Karachi 2006
N.G.A. inaugural show, “Site of Substance” curator Salima Hashmi 2007
“60 x 60” Moti Roti video project, touring internationally 2007-2009
“The Frankfurt School” collaborative video project with Adnan Madani, VASL Lahore, 2008
“Half-Life” with Huma Mulji, two person show, NCA Gallery, Lahore 2009
“Going Places” Canvas Gallery, Karachi 2009
“Patrons of Oh My God I can Buy Art” curated Mehreen Murtaza, Grey Noise, Lahore 2009
(Collaboration with Adnan Madani)
“Automaton Love” Loft Gallery, Mumbai, 2010

Bibliography:
Arts Council of Great Britain, Hayward Gallery,” Drawing Open” Catalogue 1982
Stanford Humanities Review, Stanford University, USA, No.52
"Container 96 - Art Across Oceans"- exhibition catalogue, Copenhagen, Denmark 1996
The Art News Magazine of India, Mumbai August-October 1996
ART Asia Pacific, Australia, issue no. 14 1997
50 Years of Visual Arts in Pakistan, Sang-e-Meel Publications, Lahore 1997
Karachi. Megacity of Our Times, Oxford University Press, Karachi 1997
ABN Amro C-D Rom - Pakistan: 50 Years an art retrospective, 1998
Interview, The News on Sunday, Pakistan 23rd August 1998
Art Asia Pacific, Australia, issue no. 21, 1999
1st Fukuoka Asian Art Trienniale - exhibition Catalogue. 1999
Fukuoka Arts and Cultural Information, March. 1999
Interviews, NKH radio and Television, Japan. 1999
Newsline, Karachi. March. 1999
The Review, Dawn. Karachi. April 22-28, 1999
Art Asia Pacific, Australia 1999
World Sculpture News, Summer 1999
Newsline, Karachi. Sept 1999
News on Sunday, Karachi Sept. 5, 1999
Art/Text, No. 66 August-Oct. 1999, Los Angeles, USA 1999
Art Asia Pacific, Issue 24, 1999, Australia 1999
3rd Asia Pacific Trienniale Catalogue, 1999
The News Magazine of India “Speaking in different Tongues” Robina
Karode July-Sept’99 Vol 4: Issue 3. 1999
Magnetic Writing/Marching Ideas, Works on Paper. IT Park Catlg.
Taipei, Taiwan. 1999

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Art in America: Ann Wilson Lloyd Oct. 1999
Very New Art, Magazine, Bijutsu Shuppan-Sha, Tokyo,
Japan. Jan 2000
Art Asia Pacific, APT supplement Issue 25, 2000, Australia 2000
“Pakistan Another Vision” Brunei gallery, SOAS, catalogue 2000
Asia House and Arts in the Islamic World, ISBN. 1-903411-00-9
Fukuoka Asian Art Museum News, Vol 3, Feb 2001
"Takhti" Project catalogue 2001
Kara-Art catalogues 2000, 2001 Alliance Francaise, Karachi 2001
1st Karachi International Film Festival Catalogue 2001
PTV World interview with Mhd. Ayyub Khan at canvas gallery Nov. 2001
“Vocalising Art” News on Sunday, Muna Siddiqui: Nov. 11th 2001
“Topical Art” News on Sunday, Quddus Mirza: Nov. 18th Nov. 2001
Dawn Gallery, Marjorie Hussain Oct. 2002
Newsline, Niilofur Farrukh Nov 2002
Herald Magazine, Asim Butt Nov 2002
Dawn Gallery , “State of the Arts 2002”, Dec 2002
“Gunpowder Aesthetics”, Asim Akhtar, Libas International Vol 16, issue 1, 2003
Art India, Quddus Mirza March 2003
“Of cows, trees and archives”, Mariam Qureshi, Daily Times, Lahore Feb.18th, 2009
“As Unpredictable as Art” Quddus Mirza, Encore, The News on Sunday, Lahore, 22nd Feb. 2009
“Two in Two” Munir Bukhari, Dawn, Images, March 8, 2009
“Half Lives” Dr Maureen Korp, The Friday Times, Lahore, March 13th 2009

Publications
Essays to "Tampered Surface" exhibition Catalogue,
Huddersfield and Oldham Art Galleries, U.K. 1995
Editorial/Articles in Artists Newsletter, Pakistan 1995-

Sculpture Commissions:
Various private commissions, UK & Pakistan 1980
Onwards
Slides held on the Arts Council of Great Britain Long Acre Index
1983
Onwards
Site Specific Commission for Girdle Toll, Irvine New Town,
Ayrshire, Scotland, UK 1983
Guardian Royal Exchange, Head office, Karachi, 1993
Work included in the National Collection of Pakistan (4 works) 1993,
1995, 1996
Muslim Commercial Bank, Head Office, Karachi, 1994
Union Bank Karachi & Lahore 1995

Curatorship:
Co-Curated Truck Art Exhibition for the Music Village of Pakistan
Festival, October Gallery, London. 1995
Co-Curated Truck exhibition at the New World Gallery, Dusseldorf, Germany 1996
At the AN Gallery Karachi: 1997-1998
High Low & In Between
The Longer Now
Belinda Eaton
Summer 1997
Faiza Butt, recent works
Spaces Within

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Contemporary Urdu Cinema Posters
Recent Indus Graduates
Karachi Contemporaries part 1.
Jason Fox & Huma Bhabha
Belinda Eaton
Summer 1998
Shahbaz Malik
International Club, Karachi, 2004
-2006

Cultural Activities:
Delegate of the P.N.C.A. Colloquium on "Visual Arts In Pakistan" Islamabad 1994/96
Established the "Artists Newsletter Pakistan" 1995
Director of exhibitions at AN Gallery Karachi, 1997/98
Participant, Second Asia Pacific Art Triennial, Brisbane, Australia. 1996
Participant, PNCA Art Seminar, Islamabad 1996
Participant, Goethe Institut workshop on Cultural 1996
Promotion in Pakistan.
Co-ordinator, Truck art workshop, Haus Der Kulturen, Berlin. 1996
Participant to the session on Decorated Transport at the First
International Conference of Asia Scholars,(ICAS) Noordwijkerhout, 1998
Netherlands, with film and photographs on aspects of popular culture in
Karachi.
The Rocket Documentary Video on Truck Art with Durriya Kazi. 1998
Curriculum adviser, Department of Visual Studies, University of Karachi. 1998
Paper presentation with Durriya Kazi: Seminar - Asian Art Towards 1999
the 21st Century,1st Fukuoka Asian Art Trienniale March - June 1999
Negotiating with Oneself, paper presentation for Rubies, Pearls
and Polystyrene: Contemporary Art in the Asia-Pacific, Univ. of
South Australia/Nexus Multicultural Arts Centre, Adelaide. 1999
Univ. of South Australia, Adelaide. Visiting tutor to post graduate
programme. 1999
Academic Council member Indus valley School of Art & Architecture, Karachi 1989-2005
Academic Council Member Beacon House National University, Lahore 2002-
Admissions Board member Ziauddin medical University, Karachi 2003-
Karafilm short film jury member 2005
Visiting lecturer BNU, Lahore 2005-
Juror Karachi Film Festival 2005
Moved to Lahore 2006
Teaching BNU, NCA studio & theory 2006-onwards
Coordinator Foundation Studies, B.N.U., Lahore 2007-2009
Student Transart New Media MFA, 2008- Onwards
Horticultural Consultant to Agha Khan Cultural Services, Pakistan 2009-Onwards

Life member of the Royal Society of British Sculptors. Life member of the Arts Council of Pakistan.

Work in Public Collections:

David Chalmers Alesworth A.R.B.S.

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21 February 2010