In the work of Nusra Latif Qureshi, miniature painting becomes an act of revision — a way of returning to history to…

In the work of Nusra Latif Qureshi, miniature painting becomes an act of revision — a way of returning to history to ask who gets remembered, and how. Trained in musaviri at the National College of Arts and now based in Melbourne, she bridges classical technique with contemporary questions of identity, memory, and power.

Drawing on archives — colonial photographs, botanical studies, textiles — Qureshi layers, erases, and reconfigures images to center voices that were once quieted, especially those of women. What appears delicate becomes quietly radical, transforming the miniature page into a site of reflection and resistance.

Within Masnavi: Lores Across Lands, her work reminds us that stories are not fixed. They can be retold, renegotiated — and gently reimagined for the world we live in now.

[Masnavi, Ojas Art, Nusra Latif Qureshi, Miniature Painting, Identity, Memory, Contemporary Miniatures, Mehrauli]

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