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Parminder Kaur Bhandal  ​​​​​is a Punjabi-born artist, poet, and librarian living on Wurundjeri Country. Rooted in her Punjabi-Sikh heritage and guided by feminine mysticism, her practice emerges from the subtle and quiet forces that connect body, land, and memory. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from RMIT University, where she developed a multidisciplinary approach across photography, video, poetry, installation, and performance.

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Her work has been exhibited in major cultural spaces, including the Immigration Museum, Abbotsford Convent, Testing Grounds, Incinerator Gallery, and numerous artist-run and community-led spaces. Her nature-based costumes and floral body adornment works have also been featured in Melbourne Fashion Week, extending her practice into wearable ritual and performance.

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Through adorning bodies with flowers and leaves, Bhandal reclaims creation as an act of resistance—transforming QTBIPOC bodies from sacrificial offerings into altars. Informed by ancestral philosophies such as the yoga sutras, she frames the body as a site of devotion, regeneration, and quiet power.

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Beyond exhibition, she is deeply engaged in community care and creative access. She has facilitated writing workshops for the Brimbank Writers & Readers Festival and leads art-as-healing workshops for youth and kin. In 2024, she was nominated for Brimbank Young Citizen of the Year for her contributions to arts and cultural life in the west.

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Her work invites tenderness, rupture, and collective return to the sacred.

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CV

 

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

Exhibition Profile

2025-Elevation, STACC

2025- Transcriptions X Wundergym Exhibition, Louis Joel Gallery 

2025- Heart Desires Exhibition, Holy Trinity Co

2025- Leftovers Exhibition, Goodspace Gallery 

2025- Tapestry of Culture, Immigration Museum 

2024- Mirages Exhibition, Changing Room Gallery 

2024-WUNDERGYM X Melbourne Fringe Festival, Wood 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 Pavilion 

2023- Carlton Library Light Boxes, Yarra City Council 

2022- WOMEN NOW Exhibition, Queen Victoria Women's Centre 

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

2025- Trou Gallery Poetry Night

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

2025- Solace, Multicultural Peers Project

2025- Poems like living Trees, Brimbank Writers and Readers Festival.

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