Malik Ahmed Arshad
Malik Ahmed is a Pakistani multidisciplinary artist and printmaker based in the UK. He holds an MA in Fine Art from Norwich University of the Arts and a BFA in Printmaking and Digital Media from the National College of Arts, Lahore.
His practice explores memory, absence, fragments and the traces left behind by experiences that can no longer be fully remembered. Working across printmaking, painting and digital processes, he combines monotype, monoprint, intaglio, drawing, photography, scanning and digital manipulation to build layered and fragmented images.
Ahmed is particularly interested in how memories change over time and how places, landscapes and personal experiences can become unclear, reconstructed or imagined. His works often use repetition, erasure, dark marks and fragmented forms to create atmospheric landscapes that sit between the remembered and the imagined.
His recent work has been exhibited in Pakistan and the UK, including exhibitions at Norwich University of the Arts, the Victoria and Albert Museum and galleries in Lahore. He continues to develop a practice connecting traditional printmaking with contemporary digital image-making.
Artist Statement
I am interested in the uncertainty of memory — how an image can feel familiar without being completely recognisable, and how small traces can remain even when the original experience has faded. Repetition, layering, erasure and fragmented marks become ways of thinking through this process.
I move between analogue and digital methods, using monotype, monoprint, intaglio, drawing, scanning and digital manipulation. The physical imperfections of printmaking sit alongside the precision of digital imagery, creating tension between what feels real and what feels reconstructed.
Rather than trying to recreate a specific place or memory, I want the work to hold onto its atmosphere — the feeling of being somewhere, remembering something, but not being able to fully reach it.
