Gullu plays with the notions of memory, relationships, trauma, sexuality and emotion, in her experimental, mixed media, found-photography pieces.
She manipulates these pieces – some from her childhood, some from idyllic women’s magazines – to unnerve the audience, who can never quite understand where the next peculiar, detached sentence will come from. Like a puzzle, you can’t quite solve, the pictures are one half of the enigma, whilst the text makes up the other half of the mystery; keeping the audience at a distance as the truth is too painful for the artist to state obviously.
She works autobiographically, confessing materially her past, present and future; looking for catharsis as she finds freedom from the trauma inflicted upon her, taking back her agency.
Graduating from Solent with a First-Class Honours in Fine Art, despite being in a coma during her studies in 2018, she flies in the face of adversity every day. Gullu is an ethnically diverse, disabled and neurodivergent, working class, second-generation immigrant, who is non-binary and queer.
Find her at www.gullukandrouart.com or Instagram at: @gullukandrouart