LAHORE, Dec 3: An exhibition titled ‘Every Third Mouthful’ opened at the Alhamra Art Centre on Wednesday.

It is an art and science exhibition, researched internationally alongside leading bee pollination entomologists, highlighting the importance of biodiversity and its effects on food supply.

Salima Hashmi, who is dean of the Beaconhouse National University’s school of visual art and design, inaugurated the exhibition.

Two artists, Peter Chatwin and Pamela Martin, have put on display the exhibition in collaboration with the Lahore Arts Council.

Both the artists had conducted field and laboratory research in collaboration with leading entomologists and bee experts. The artworks, drawings and photographs, reflected the methods and language of scientific studies into bee populations with the usage of text and images from research carried out in southern Italy, Arizona and the United Kingdom. They are working on a pollination project in Pakistan in association with entomologist Dr Nasreen Muzaffar and the Worldwide Fund for Nature-Pakistan.

Chatwin told Dawn they came on an art residency programme at the BNU in 2003 and since then they had been planning an exhibition on biodiversity issue in Pakistan. The exhibition had magnified photographs of different kinds of bees from all over the world. The rare photographs of bees attracted a number of art lovers at the exhibition that will continue till Dec 30.