Suman Gujral is a multidisciplinary artist working with print, textile and poetry. Her parents were forcibly displaced by the 1947 Partition of India, and came to the UK seventeen years later. Her history as a child of refugees and immigrants underlies her practice, and community engagement, inclusivity, compassion and joy are central to her work. She reflects on the cycle of war and displacement, rooted in colonial action, which un-homed her parents, through visual and written works, and is awed by the human ability to survive – thrive, even – in the aftermath of traumatic events. She strongly believes that art should be part of our everyday lives rather than a white-space experience.
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