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Parminder Kaur Bhandal (she/her)  is an artist, librarian, and poet who breathes life into spaces where the heart feels both held and free. Her work—spanning photography, video, installation, wearable art, and poetry—feels like a garden in bloom, rooted in ancestry and watered by the small, sacred acts of love and memory.

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Her poetry is a quiet rebellion, soft yet unyielding, an offering to the ones who came before and the ones yet to come. She writes of belonging, of lands carried in the folds of a dupatta, of voices that refuse to be forgotten. Her words carry the scent of marigolds, the sound of leaves in prayer, the ache of longing that transforms into grace.

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Parminder’s art is an act of devotion—to the stories that shape us, to the earth that cradles us, to the liberation found in tenderness. She gathers the fragments of place and identity, stitching them together with compassion and fierce hope.

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Education
2019- 2021 Bachelor of Fine Arts, RMIT University.
2021-2022  Diploma of Library and Information Services


Exhibition Profile

2025- Wearable Art Showcase , Immigration Museum 

2024- Mirages Exhibition, Changing Room Gallery 

2024-WUNDERGYM X Melbourne Fringe Festival, Woods street art spaces. 

2024-Show your WESTSIDE Art Prize

2024- Creatives and Coffee, Artful Yoga Gallery 

2024-All you do, Unassigned Gallery, Melbourne Design Week 

2024- In my little corner of the world anyone would love you, Niddrie Library 

2024-Earth, Body and Soul, Incinerator Gallery

2023- Dances and Dreams, Abbotsford Convent

2023-Airtime Exhibition, Hobsons Bay Council 

2023- People Exhibition, Group Exhibition @ Unassigned Gallery  

2033- Resonant Voices Showcase, LeSpace

2023-Hillvale Photo Trophy, Hillvale Gallery

2023- Library at the Dock Window Display, City of Melbourne

2023- International Women's Day Exhibition, Abbotsford Convent 

2023- The Bureau of Origins (BOO) Exhibition, The Pavillion 

2023- Carlton Library Light Boxes, Yarra City Council 

2022- WOMEN NOW Exhibition, Queen Victoria Marke

2022-Woods Street Youth Art Prize

2022- The Forest I Inhabit, Compendium Gallery

2022- When you think of feminism, what do you think? , George Paton Gallery 
2022- Fleeting Landscapes, Sunshine Art Spaces

2022- Re-center Exhibition, Hunt Club Community and Arts Centre
2021- Future Lens Exhibition, Hunt Club Community and Arts Centre
2021- Testing Nights, Testing Grounds
2020- Quivering in Quarantine, Volume I, An Online Curated Exhibition 

https://mrosestephenson.wixsite.com/qiqgallery 

2020- Covid-19 Global Quilt, An Online Global Quilt Project

http://www.katejust.com/covid19-global-quilt 
2019- Seen and Heard, Creative Womxn Exhibition
2019- Born there, Raised here and Home Nowhere’, Archways, First Site Gallery
2018- Offensiveart?, Brunswick Street Gallery. 

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Poetry

2024- Fundraiser, Catalyst Social Centre Coburg

2024-Demure Launch, High Note 

2024 - Music for Liberation, Bar 303

2024-Thin Red Line Feature, Brunswick Artist Bar 

2023- Radio Laria Feature, Open Studio Northcote

2023-Brimbank Readers and Writers Festival 

2022- Feature poet for GenZine Launch, Bowery Theatre

2022- Creative Producer for Slamadamdingdong

2022- Feature Poet for Melbourne Spoken Word Fresh Voices Showcase

2021- Wordcraft Feature @ The Fitzroy Art Collective 

2021-  Sacrificial Poet for SLAMAFAM, Loop Bar
2021- Winner of Slamadamadindong 2021 
2021- Poetry Feature for The Maes Band at The Corner Hotel
2021- Feature Poet for Line-up, Sign up, Muck-up event for the Midsumma Festival
2021- Winner of Speak Up, Own Your Voice poetry Slam for Connection Art Spaces

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Residency

2024/2025- Peer- to-Peer, Trocadero projects

2023- Bowery Theatre Residency 
2021- CAS X WOT Artist Residency at the Old Cheese Factory in Berwick

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Theatre

2024- Inner Sanctuary, Bowery Theatre 

2023- Aza: stories of grief in diaspora, Fringe Festival 
2023- The Boss of Bakersfield, Western Edge 

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Workshops

2023- Flower Crown Workshop, Abbotsford Convent 

2023- Earth Body Soul: Artist Workshop, Carlton Library 

2023-Nature-Costume Workshop, The Bowery Theatre St Albans Community Centre 

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Projects

2024- Brimabnk Arts Advisory Committee 

2024- Wunder Gym, Wyndham City Council

2022- Resonant Voices, VU
2022- Youth Voice Creative Project, YMCA 

2020- Future Lens Project, Brimbank City Council


Print

2024- Demure Magazine 24.01

2024- To Forever Ebb and Flow: Queer Time/Migrant Time Reader
2023, Rara  Issue 6

2023- Be Log Zine, Self Published

2022- The Bold Source 

2022- GenZine Issue 3
2021- GenZine Issue 2
2020 - METAMORPHOSIS Anthology, Bowen Street Press


Awards

2024- Nominated for Brimbank Young Citizen of the Year 

2022- Artist Encouragement Award, Woods Street Youth Art Prize

2022- Best Youth Film Runner Up, 123 Film competition @ BE BOLD FESTIVAL 
2020- Quivering in Quarantine’s People’s Choice Award

I lovingly acknowledge the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin nations, who have cared for the land, skies, and waterways where I create, learn, and find joy. My heartfelt respect to elders past, present, and emerging, and their profound Indigenous wisdom of knowing, listening, and connecting to Country <3

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