creating a few plates, he was soon bored of the medium and instead began to carve out flat shapes of animals and designs to create three-dimensional works, from the copper plates given to him. His tryst with printmaking ended after he lost interest in the medium and due to the prohibitive cost of plates, which at the time were imported. Having recently concluded his show 'Old Bombay', often visiting coastal Koliwadas (fishing villages) to observe the old Portuguese Forts and embankments, Raiba etched three mullets together playing with the possibilities, to capture the graphic quality of their scales. His recent experimentations though have been with glass, composing a singular image three-dimensionally by placing differently drawn layers of glass together. When AA Raiba was 86, reflecting back on his practice he said, that decades have passed but his work remained unfinished. " Itni Umar gayi, Kam khatam nahi hua"(In Urdu – " So many years have passed, I am old, yet my practice remains unfinished.") – AA Raiba Awards 1947 Silver Medal, Bombay Art Society, Bombay. 1947 Bronze Medal, Bombay Art Society, Bombay. 1947 Awarded The Late Rao Bahadur S.V. Rajadhyaksha Memorial Prize, Bombay Art Society, Bombay. 1951 Silver Medal, Bombay Art Society, Bombay. 1952 Awarded Sheth Vullabhdas Cursondas Nath's Prize, Bombay Art Society, Bombay. 1953 Highly Commended, Annual Exhb., Bombay Art Society, Bombay. 1953 Awarded The Late Shri Kavasji Jalbhoy Stt Memorial, Bombay Art Society, Bombay. 1954 Awarded The Bombay Fine Art Offset and Litho Works Prize, Bombay Art Society, Bombay. 1956 Gold Medal, Bombay Art Society, Bombay. 1962 Awarded as one among the ten best exhibits of the year, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi. Exhibition history 1953 Bombay Artist Creations, Zurich. 1954 Biennale of Rome. 1955 Solo exhb., AIFACS, New Delhi. 1956 Solo exhb., Graham Studio, Bombay. 1957 Exhb. of Indian Contemporary paintings, Milan. 1959 Solo exhb., Jehangir Art Gallery, Bombay. 1961 Exhb. at UAE. 1961 Exhb. at USSR, Paris and Rio de Janeiro. 1964 Solo exhb., Taj Art Gallery, Bombay. 1965 Exhb. at South East Africa and Nairobi. 1967 Solo exhb. on Bara-Masa, Shirom Art Gallery, Bombay. 1967 Solo exhb. on catastrophe, Taj Art Gallery, Bombay. 1968 Solo exhb., Attic Art Gallery, Bombay. 1969 Mirza Ghalib Centenary Show, Taj Art Gallery, Bombay. 1969 Solo exhb., Taj Art Gallery, Bombay. 1970 10 Hrs to 20 Hrs, Taj Art Gallery, Bombay. Solo exhb., Gallery Oasis, Bombay. 1972 Solo exhb. on