Pakistani artist born 1928 who studied at the Slade and developed a modernist style exploring abstraction, geometry and pattern based on Islamic art traditions.
"Anwar Jalal Shemza was already an established artist in Pakistan, when he arrived in Britain in the 1950s to study at the Slade. His experience in Britain, marked by an existential crisis, led him to abandon all that he had done before and look for a new direction and language – one which would embr"