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UCC's Motley magazine featuring Kaumal Baig

4 Jan 2016

Featuring Kaumal Baig in UCC's Motley magazine

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Words: Ellen Desmond

Kaumal Baig is a 4th year Dental Student at UCC, who grew up in Cork with Asian roots. Holding the title of Quercus Creative and Performing Arts Scholar (2015/16), it鈥檚 not too difficult to see why Kaumal has managed to achieve this accolade.

With no formal training in art, she claims she doesn鈥檛 know the 鈥渇ancy terminology,鈥� and can鈥檛 recite the names of revered artists or influential works from Art History. Instead, having grown up with a keen interest in mathematics and the sciences, Kaumal鈥檚 ink drawings strongly reflect her other interests through their meticulous execution, systematic patterns and rigorous crisp, clear, permanent lines.

Kaumal鈥檚 art is well known to many students of 深夜亚洲福利久久 College Cork, predominantly as a result of her strong social media presence. Facebook page 鈥楰aumal Baig Art INKstinct鈥� and Instagram account kbaig93 are regularly updated and have come to the attention of many. However, Inkspirations is her first solo art exhibition.

Artwork by Kaumal Baig. 

Inkspirations showcases 38 pieces of work, all done over a span of two years. 鈥淚t鈥檚 almost like a timeline for me,鈥� Kaumal says of the pieces on display. 鈥淒ifferent commissions, doodles from sketchbooks that were blown up, varying interests that came and went. It鈥檚 amazing to see the support coming from everywhere and I鈥檓 really so thankful for it!鈥�

Kaumal herself is undoubtedly one of the many reasons her art has come to so much attention around campus; she鈥檚 as likeable and honest as the works themselves and says that she couldn鈥檛 be happier to donate parts of any proceeds to charities.

At the exhibition, the pieces are unavoidably stunning in their exactness and work together with a brilliant flow of motifs and consistency in style. An individual piece, even the smallest among the collection, could hold one鈥檚 attention for hours. For an artist who claims to have no formal training, her technical precision is more than impressive, especially in the attention to minuscule details.

Artwork by Kaumal Baig.

Kaumaul says: 鈥淎s hippie as I might sound, I love the meditative quality that drawing out patterns has. It鈥檚 like running 鈥� where at some point you feel like you鈥檙e thinking about absolutely nothing at all. I just love that feeling. I think everyone should have something that makes them switch off completely. It鈥檚 great to just plug in my headphones and focus on only one thing as opposed to everything else that鈥檚 happening. You can really get lost in it for hours.鈥�

The high quality as well as large quantity of this body of work shows her dedication for her art, and it鈥檚 clear that the process behind creating the pieces means a lot to this passionate artist.

鈥淒rawing lets me temporarily leave behind the madness, frustrations, expectations placed upon each of us. It lets me forget the times I鈥檝e let others down, times when things feel they couldn鈥檛 be any worse, times when things haven鈥檛 been ok. It brings back into perspective all the things I love about life the adventure, the experimentation and doing things for the simple pleasure, as opposed to the result driven road it can feel like. Simply put art makes me happy.鈥�

Artwork by Kaumal Baig.

December can be a crazy and frustrating time for most students; taking a trip down to Brookfield鈥檚 Jennings Gallery was a welcome escape, one which comes highly recommended as a way to wind down.

鈥業nkspirations鈥� is on display at the Jennings Gallery creative space in Brookfield Health Science Complex until the 27th of January. Original drawings and gicl茅e prints are available for purchase through the gallery. Kaumal Baig will donate part of the proceeds of sales to CUH Charity and Operation Smile.