Iram Razzaq, Author at INVERSE JOURNAL

Iram Razzaq

Currently based in United Kingdom, Iram Razzaq was born and raised in Pakistan Administered Kashmir where she received her early education before moving to England in 1996. Her interest in art developed through drawing diagrams in biology class in the 10th grade. She also learned from the fascinating sketches found at the beginning of each novelette in her mum’s literary magazines. A BTEC diploma in Art and Design at the Sheffield College allowed her to choose one of many fields of art to study further. She graduated from the Manchester Metropolitan University in 2002 with BA (HONS) in Textiles. After graduating, instead of pursuing her career in the world of textiles, she enjoyed independently creating artworks using acrylics on canvas and also, occasionally, watercolour on paper. She has just started to branch out and exhibit at the local art fairs with the Doncaster Art Fair in December 2018 being the first one. She intends to continue on this journey in the future.

Paintings like Postcards in Solidarity from Across the LOC — by Iram Razzaq

March 26, 2019 | Art

UK-based artist Iram Razzaq, who was born and raised in Pakistan Administered Kashmir (Azad Kashmir), presents eleven of her paintings inspired by the 2010 uprising in Kashmir valley where more than 112 civilians, most of them school children, teens and youngsters, were killed in the protests of that gruesome year. Razzaq was motivated by a need to build solidarity and express the anguish that she felt in becoming aware of the horrors perpetrated on Kashmiris by the Indian Armed Forces during the protests that shook the entire valley and resulted in almost daily killings, injuries and damage to property, apart from the months long curfew that brought Kashmir to a halt.