David Alesworth is a sculptor, photographer and researcher of garden histories, working between Pakistan and the UK. Over the past decades, the Garden has been a key metaphor for him, with which to question humanity’s culturally specific relationships with the natural world. His own hybrid identity informs many aspects of his practice, and he has an enduring commitment to public art projects. He was a pivotal member of the ‘Karachi Pop’ movement in the 1990’s, the Head of Sculpture at the IVSAA, Karachi, and is a life member of the Royal Society of British Sculptors. His work has been featured in publications such as the Architectural Review and British Art Studies, Paul Mellon Centre, UK.
Recent exhibitions include:
Manzar National Museum of Qatar (2025), Beyond the Page: South Asian Miniature Painting and Britain, 1600 to Now, The Box, Plymouth (2024) and MK Gallery, Milton Keynes (2023). Metal: Elemental Resonance Koel Gallery, Karachi (2024), A Drop Becoming the Ocean Aga Khan University Karachi (2025) Hortus Nocte (solo) Canvas Gallery Karachi (2023) Patterns of the Past: Weaving and Heritage in Pakistani Art, Grosvenor Gallery London (2021). The Carless Mapping (solo) Canvas Gallery, Karachi (2020), Centre of Gravity Bristol (2020), Lie of the Land, MK Gallery (2019); ‘The Glory of the Garden’ (solo) Karachi (2019); Lahore Biennale 2 (2018); Jameel Prize 4 Pera Museum, Istanbul (2016), Asia Culture Centre, Gwangju (2017) and the A. Kasteyev State Museum of Arts, Almaty, Kazakhstan (2018). Other shows include: The Architecture of Life, BAMPFA, Berkeley University, USA (2016); Dhaka Art Summit (2016), 8th Berlin Biennale (2014); and The Garden of Ideas Agha Khan Museum, Toronto (2015). Alesworth is a Stanley Picker Fellowship award holder and was shortlisted for the V&A Jameel Prize in 2016
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