Following threads of art history and politics of representation, this survey assembles works from across Nusra Latif Qureshi’s thirty-year career, including painting, collage, photography and installation, as well as a new body of work.
Qureshi is largely known in Melbourne for exquisite painted works that extend South Asian painting traditions in a contemporary context. Themes explored include dislocation and loss, the persistence of collective trauma, the capacity of beauty to disguise violence and the seduction involved with power – through layered references, vibrant colours, delicate line drawings, and poetic motifs.
Nusra Latif Qureshi, DID YOU COME HERE TO FIND HISTORY? (detail), 2009. Courtesy the artist, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne and Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne
Monash University Museum of Art
26 July to 20 September 2025
Melbourne
