Anu Gamanagari 

Anu Gamanagari is an India-born, UK-based visual artist and arts worker whose work explores themes of motherhood, migration, and belonging. Her practice is grounded in the rhythms of everyday life, drawing from personal experiences as a mother, migrant, and musafir (मुसाफिर – traveller) to create intimate portraits of care, identity, and transformation.

Working primarily with photography, Anu’s long-form projects centre on the domestic, capturing those closest to her to reflect on shifting roles, intergenerational relationships, and the invisible labour that underpins family and community life. Through this lens, she explores how the rhythms of everyday life create a sense of home, transforming the ordinary into reflections on love, loss, and resilience..

Anu was one of the winners of the Portrait of Britain 2024, 2025 and the English Heritage Archive’s Picturing Highstreets commission in 2023. Her work has been exhibited at FORMAT Festival (2025), Midlands Art Centre (Belonging, 2025), RBSA Photography Prize (2023, 2025), and Aspex Gallery (Traces of Being, 2025). She has been shortlisted for the Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize (2021, 2023) and shortlisted for the RPS IPE 165.

Alongside her practice, Anu curates and manages community-facing projects that amplify overlooked voices, including The Meadows (solo exhibition by Rita Pena, 2025), REFLECTOR (2023–24), My Queer Life (2024), and WomeninPhotoBirmingham (2024). 

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