Islam Gull is a truck and bus artist of Bhutta village in Karachi. Born in Peshawar, has been painting since the age of thirteen. In addition to trucks and buses, Gull decorates buildings and housewares and has worked for several consulates in Karachi, as well as travelling to Kandahar, Afghanistan to paint trucks there.
‘Truck artists transform village rickshaws, city buses and commercial trucks into a procession of moving colour.’
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