Syed Jamal Shah, Director General of the PNCA, is an artist, writer, filmmaker, educationist, and social worker. Following a masters in English Literature from Baluchistan University, he joined the National College of Arts (NCA), Lahore, studying Fine Arts with a major in sculpture. On completing his professional studies, he returned to his hometown Quetta and established the Department of Fine Arts in Baluchistan University. He chaired the department for three years and then went on a British Council scholarship to do a Master’s in printmaking from The Slade School of Arts, London. Trained in various disciplines of Visual Arts, his forte remains sculpture. Shah sculpted bust of Pakistan’s Nobel laureate...