Gulammohammed Sheikh: The studio is your home that you discover again and again because everything that you do exists there
Gulammohammed Sheikh has just finished reading Arundhati Roy’s Mother Mary Comes To Me. “It was a riveting read,” he says. You might mistake the house he shares with his wife Nilima Sheikh as belonging to a professor – books spill out of shelves in his two-room library, from cupboards in every room of the house, over ledges and tables and sometimes even on the floor – and you wouldn’t be wrong. For Gulam sa’ab has taught art history; is a published poet; and is currently engaged with editing essays written over the years, for publication. There are books on art, of course, but also literature, biographies, autobiographies, fiction – in English, Hindi and Gujarati. He keeps giving them away too, “to the Faculty of Fine Arts” at the university where he taught. “ I even give them cupboards for their storage,” but between books received and books bought, managing them is still a chore.
Books apart, his painting and his studio constitute his world. “ In one sense, the studio is a home within the home. Whenever I return from outside, I don’t think I’ve...
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