Gözde İlkin (1981, Kütahya) completed her bachelor’s degree in 2004 at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University Painting Department, and in 2012 Marmara University Fine Arts School Painting Department her masters degree. She studies and works on the theme of social identity with home fabrics that are memory items that represent processes such as tablecloth, curtains, bed sheets etc. She uses these fabrics as a space to stage the motifs and images that she creates. The motifs and illustrations on the fabrics represent contemporary cultural knowledge, political and social relationships and gender issues. Ilkin, traces natural elements in order to discover the feeling of belonging in different forms. She follows the healing and transformative effects of plants, animals and humans in her forms that are inspired by nature.
