Description

Gouri Vemula(b.1972) is an Indian artist based in Hyderabad. She holds a Diploma in painting from the Jawaharlal Nehru Architecture and Fine Arts University, Hyderabad and Masters in Drawing from Vijaymahantesh Lalit Kala Mahavidyalaya, Karnataka, along with a Masters in Printmaking from the Sarojini Naidu School of Art. She has won several awards during her career including the 74th National AIFACS award and the 43rd National Exhibition of Art award among others.

Gouri is highly skilled in pen and ink drawing, etching and dry point technique. Her works unravel surreal landscapes with mythic figures of gods and goddesses, animals, human figures, magical objects and motifs from the natural world. While drawing substantial influence from the mythic visual lexicon, she also reinvents new iconography by situating them in imagined landscapes with unreal animals or sometimes fusing them with objects. Her delicate balancing of the images conjures the amalgamation of real and unreal, mythic and mundane and fantasy and desire.