Gugan Gill (b. 1999) is a multi-disciplinary artist and educator based in Birmingham and London.
Gugan’s work delves into capturing the “life story” (Le Guin, 1986), attending to often overlooked South Asian narratives, marginalised histories and changing landscapes. With particular focus on the practice of growing and cultivating community, a sense of domestic feminism is woven throughout her work. She focuses on the voices of the women in her life, seeking to understand and document the passing down of cultures and heritage, and highlighting the importance of community in understanding our individual and communal experiences within the world.
With a dedication to storytelling, Gugan‘s work documents and preserves histories, using them to inform our practice of everyday life by attending to material culture and domestic settings such as the home, the garden, and local communities. Recently this includes documenting the garden of her family home on her Nana Ji’s Super 8, serving endless cups of cha from hand thrown cups, and taking up carpentry.
Selected work include: Ripples, Hypha Studios, 2024. We Must Cultivate our Garden, Royal College of Art, 2024. Crafting Memories, Intimate Place, Royal College of Art 2024. Cosmic Modelling, Vivid Projects, 2024. Intersectional Feminist Discussion Group, Artefact Projects and Midlands Art Centre, 2023/2024.
First Class Hons -
BA Art and Design 2023 - Birmingham School of Art
MA Contemporary Art Practice - Royal College of Art
Gugan Gill (b. 1999) is a multi-disciplinary artist and educator based in Birmingham and London.
Gugan’s work delves into capturing the “life story” (Le Guin, 1986), attending to often overlooked South Asian narratives, marginalised histories and changing landscapes. With particular focus on the practice of growing and cultivating community, a sense of domestic feminism is woven throughout her work. She focuses on the voices of the women in her life, seeking to understand and document the passing down of cultures and heritage, and highlighting the importance of community in understanding our individual and communal experiences within the world.
With a dedication to storytelling, Gugan‘s work documents and preserves histories, using them to inform our practice of everyday life by attending to material culture and domestic settings such as the home, the garden, and local communities. Recently this includes documenting the garden of her family home on her Nana Ji’s Super 8, serving endless cups of cha from hand thrown cups, and taking up carpentry.
Selected work include: Ripples, Hypha Studios, 2024. We Must Cultivate our Garden, Royal College of Art, 2024. Crafting Memories, Intimate Place, Royal College of Art 2024. Cosmic Modelling, Vivid Projects, 2024. Intersectional Feminist Discussion Group, Artefact Projects and Midlands Art Centre, 2023/2024.
First Class Hons -
BA Art and Design 2023 - Birmingham School of Art
MA Contemporary Art Practice - Royal College of Art
BA Art and Design 2023 - Birmingham School of Art
MA Contemporary Art Practice - Royal College of Art