Gutter People

Gutter People
Hardeep Pandhal
Indian ink and acrylic on paper
51 x 36cm
2024

Hardeep Pandhal (b.1985) uses wall drawings, small and large-scale drawings on paper and animations to create mythical narratives that explore the complexities of contemporary culture, class, racial violence and power. Pandhal’s drawings introduce audiences to a rabble of creatures conjured and mutated from an ambitious range of sources – religion, video games, comics, mainstream music – from the Sikh martyr Baba Deep Singh to black metal.Gutter People inhabit the interstices of my comic world, emerging from one another’s mouths in reference to the comic term “gutter” - the space between panels. Pandhal has exhibited solo exhibitions at The Drawing Room, London; Tramway, Glasgow and New Art Exchange, Nottingham. He was shortlisted for the Jarman Award in 2018 and was the recipient of the Paul Hamlyn Award for Artists in 2011.