GULER ATES

GULER ATES

1977, Istanbul, Turkey

http://www.gulerates.co.uk/

About the Artist

Guler did her M.F.A. Printmaking at the Royal College of Art and a BA (Hons) in Fine Art, Painting from the Wimbledon School of Art, London. She has exhibited extensively all over the world including Marian Cramer, Amsterdam; Royal Academy of Arts, Cafe Gallery, London, &The LOFT, Mumbai in 2012. Guler explores the bewildering experience of displacement and echoes the eastern heritage especially her knowledge of pattern, motif within Islamic art and surface, which are all overlaid by the emotive issues of the veiled woman.