Trained originally as a sculptor in the UK, he moved to Pakistan in 1987[3] and engaged with the popular visual culture of South Asia and with urban crafts such as truck decoration.
[3] In 2005 Alesworth moved to Lahore, Pakistan, and took up a teaching position at Beaconhouse National University in the School of Visual Art (SVAD, BNU) where he taught until May 2015, then relocating to the UK.
Through these collaborations and working with these craftsmen, he produced installations or interactive sites, such as Heart Mahal, Very Sweet Medina and Promised Lands (Arz-e-Mauood) which generated substantial interest at local and international showings and cultivated a renewed attention towards cultural politics and aesthetics of cinema hoardings, truck art, bazaar artefacts, and commercial sign paintings.
[3] Where most of his practices were based loosely around decorative flourishes of the urban bazaars, his central themes have remained environmental degradation and nuclear proliferation influencing works like Two Bombs Kiss in 1993.
The nuclear tests in April 1998 had become an iconic symbol in Pakistani streets and images of the Ghauri missile were painted atop trucks and walls all over the city.
The teddy bears were translated into welded, riveted and soldered steel plate with polka-dots and displayed in public places similar to the missiles.