15 students’ artwork on display

LAHORE

Fifteen students from Department of Jewellery Design and Gemological Sciences of Pakistan Institute of Fashion and Design displayed their work in an exhibition titled ‘Stone as a Material, Stone as a Concept.’ 

The ceremony was inaugurated by PIFD Vice-Chancellor Prof Hina Tayyaba and Dabir Ahmed (consultant). 

A two-week workshop was conducted with Patricia Domingues, a German-based contemporary jeweller for these students which culminated with an exhibition. 

The workshop aimed to be a guiding and experimental process for students from 5th and 7th Semester to come into contact with diverse hard and soft materials such as clay and plaster, as well as gemstones, as thought processes and medium to awaken instinctual reactions when handling and encountering diverse materials. 

The students also undertook a site visit to Khewra Salt Mines with Patricia Domingues, along with selected faculty members in the Jewellery department to explore materials in the context of geological processes and time. 

The two-week workshop was the first of its kind in Jewellery Department at PIFD. With Pakistan’s North, such as Gilgit-Baltistan, known to be rich in occurrence of various minerals and gemstones deposits, the workshop also aimed to provide potential ground for future collaboration and experimentation to expand Pakistan’s gemstones sector. 

Patricia Domingues is the winner of Talente and Mari Funaki Award for Contemporary Jewellery: she brings to the workshop a thoroughly intuitive sensibility of encountering and thinking with materials.

Her own work, which also addresses geological processes and their core qualities of shift, time and values also activated the theme of workshop. 

Workshop

A three-day training workshop with an aim to instill the effective, analytical and methodological skills in the researchers concluded at the Information Technology University (ITU). ITU’s Centre for Governance and Policy had organised the workshop which was attended by local and international scholars, researchers and MPhil and PhD students. —Correspondent