Parminder Kaur Bhandal (she/her) is a visual artist, librarian, and poet who meditates on unblocking the heart chakra. Her art-making is imbued with love for oneself and others, compassion, empathy, and forgiveness. She gives space to intrinsic and deep truths that cannot be expressed in words, but rather prayers.
Re-centering peripheral bodies and disrupting traditional narratives around people and place, she utilizes forms of Photography, Video, and Installation to pay her respects to the community, history, country, and time that have generously nurtured her. Parminder believes that art is a gratitude ritual for life, and therefore she continues to advocate for the liberation of people and country from unsustainable and inhuman practices. Practices that separate country and people from their hearts.
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Education
2019- 2021 Bachelor of Fine Arts, RMIT University.
2021-2022 Diploma of Library and Information Services
Exhibition Profile
2024-MDW24, Unassigned Gallery
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 Market
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.
Poetry
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
Residency
2023- Bowery Theatre Residency
2021- CAS X WOT Artist Residency at the Old Cheese Factory in Berwick
Theatre
2024- Inner Sanctuary, Bowery Theatre
2023- Aza: stories of grief in diaspora, fringe festival
2023- The Boss of Bakersfield, Western Edge
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
Projects
2022- Resonant Voices, VU
2022- Youth Voice Creative Project, YMCA
2020- Future Lens Project, Brimbank City Council
Print
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
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 acknowledge the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin nations as the traditional custodians of the land , skies and waterways in which I create , learn and play. I would like to pay my respects to elders past, present and emerging and the Indigenous ways of knowing, listening , creating and connecting to Country.