Singh reinvents the past and present through diverse materials, often working with natural and found objects.
2026
Grained, Balam Balam Place, Blak Dot Gallery, Brunswick.
2025
Waxing the Hearth, KINGS ARI, West Melbourne.
2024
Mirages, Changing Room Gallery, Carlton.
To Forever Ebb & Flow: Queer Time/Migrant Time, West Space, Collingwood Yards.
All You Do, Melbourne Design Week, Unassigned Gallery, Brunswick.
Menace Co. Launch, A-N Studio, Fitzroy
The Motley Sequinox, Changing Room Gallery, Carlton
SillyFest, Old Bar Gallery, Fitzroy
As part of Vesta at Solace.
- Pink natural powder (Gulal) on floor.
As part of Grained at Blak Dot Gallery.
- Mud and Wheat Paste on Paper
- Rice Water is an
- experimental video and
- performance work.
A video - on loop - depicts the artist washing rice, a rhythmic, ancestral tradition. The artist is seen drinking the rice water, a
subtle nod her own role in this historical narrative, and embodying themes of consumption. Alongside the video is a ‘mud print' of her Nani Ma’s rice farm in Punjab, where for generations her family has survived solely through agriculture. The property, is a reminder of when wheat and rice were a personal means of survival and nourishment, yet now may be a leading cause of drought and erasure.
Inspired by traditional folk/mud art from the province of Punjab soil becomes a medium and mode of exploration, challenging western archival conventions of permanence and sterility.
These prints sit at the intersection of personal narrative and broader cultural histories, asking: how can we
create archives that honour multiplicity, movement, and embodied ways of knowing?
Installation view: Documented by Lewis Catalano
- Mud and Wheat Paste on Paper
Mandeep has developed a technique of screen printing, that substitutes traditional inks with soil/mud. This is an ephemeral act of archiving and honouring landscapes that suround us.
As part of Bio(me), Melbourne Design Week, No Vacancy Gallery. Curated by India Heath
- Raw Cotton dyed with
- Marigold and Lac, Screen
- Printed with Mud, Marigold
- Garlands.
As part of Waxing the Hearth at KINGS ARI, Curated by Lucy Gordan & Ella Peck
- Oil on Canvas, Metal Thali, Cups
Undertsanding the imporatnce that kitchens play within diasporic community’s, this work remenisces on the importance of Langar within the Sikh community. Langar being a kitchen within Gurdwaras, where anyone - regardless of caste or background - eats for free. These kitchens are found around the world and feed up to hundreds daily. Langar is a spiritual practice, rooted in ideas of equality and humility as those who enter are seated on the floor with thalis awaiting their meal.
Honouring the Langar, a communal meal was free for all to eat on opening night.
Commissioned for the West Space Window as part of To Forever Ebb and Flow: Queer Time/Migrant Time, Curated by Aziz Sohail
“Light Body ~ Water Body connects the natural landscapes of bodies of water, such as rivers and creeks, to ancestral bodies, with the recognition that one’s own body exists as an altar to our ancestors.
An image of Mandeep’s friend (or dost) and fellow South Asian artist and collaborator, Parminder Kaur Bhandal shimmers in the sunlight, resembling an enlightened body and soul, honouring traditional Sikh painting. Parminder moves between being both seen/unseen and belonging/un-belonging. In traditional Sikh and Punjabi ritual, water has an immense capacity to purify and cleanse our body and soul.
The work includes marigolds, woven as a garland, evoking traditional South Asian rituals. The garland incorporates native flora, demonstrating diasporic adaptation both as an artistic strategy and a form of survival for migrants and queer communities.”
Documentation: Kenneth Suico & Janelle Low
In collaboration with Parminder Bhandal
Featured in a publication curated by Aziz Sohail.
Listed in Art Guide Australia, September 2024 Edition.