[2] From 1990 to 1991, Guru worked as a go-go dancer and stripper, and travelled to Africa and India, then for the next year lived an Islamic lifestyle in an Algerian household in Islington, London, where she was a waitress in a Mexican restaurant.

In the early 1990s, Guru was a guitarist in the London-based British band, Mambo Taxi, linked with Riot Grrrl.

"[5] In late 1992, drummer Anjali Bhatia left Mambo Taxi to start the Voodoo Queens, along with Guru and others.

[7] Other radio and TV appearances followed, including a further two Peel Sessions,[8] and a busking competition against Boyzone on Channel 4's music and arts programme Naked City.

[15] In 2004, she was one of the fourteen artists in the "founder and featured" section of The Stuckists Punk Victorian show held at the Walker Art Gallery for the Liverpool Biennial.

[2] Her paintings take anywhere between two days and two years to complete, and usually start by her "going out and getting pissed with my friends",[2] when she takes the photographs which provide the initial ideas, although the images she works from are often "very bad, dark, fuzzy photos", necessitating subsequent real life studies as well as imaginative interpretation.

[2] The initial layout is done with a line drawing, but the aim is to achieve a finished result where the subject appears three-dimensional.

[2] Her painting The Queen's Speech had its origin in Pennsylvania in the house of a friend, with whom Guru has collaborated for a number of years in setting up suitable scenes for photographs by dressing people in costume.