Mridula’s practice integrates her secondary interest in photography and painting with her background in writing. In the last two years, her work has received funding or institutional support from the British Council, Gallery of Modern Art, Scottish Refugee Council, The Burrell Collection, and Kelvingrove Museum.
Mridula’s artistic practice informs and is informed by her research in postcolonial and feminist theory. In her practice, she aims to reposition and politicise horror and terror in the everyday.
Her focus on the everyday is most evident in her writing, where she attends to forms of violence that aren’t recognised as such and fleshes out the social consequences of this non-recognition. Her interest in both photography and painting is shaped by their distinctive capacities to capture and distort everyday life as it is understood.
In the last four years, she has received grants in the US, India, and the UK. More recently, she has been invited to judge proposals and review submissions for publication and exhibition in Scotland and Canada. Within the UK, she has been commissioned to lead workshops for The Spit It Out Project (Edinburgh), Girl Gang (Manchester), and Rumpus Room (Glasgow), to name a few.
She enjoys reading, walking, running, climbing, and knitting.
