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Parminder Kaur Bhandal  ​​​​​ is a Punjabi-born artist, poet, and librarian living and working on Wurundjeri Country. 

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CV

 

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

Exhibition Profile

2026- The River is a Mirror, Trocadero Projects

2026-Compost /Compose, Installation for Sarah Iman, Next Wave 

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

2026-Upstream, High Note

2025- Cupid's Arrow, Fundraiser 

2025- Garden of Forking Paths Visual Diary 

2025-  Poly-rhythmic #6, Next Wave 

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

2025- The Woodlands Park Garage Studio

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- Earth body~ Love body, The Woodlands Park Garage Studio

2025-The Garden of Forking Paths ( Earth Altar Workshop), Visual diary

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