Mandeep Singh  ਮਨਦੀਪ ਸਿੰਘNaarm Based Artist
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South Asian artist living, learning and working on unceded Wurundjeri land. Employing experimental photography and sculpture to explore themes of cultural and personal memory, Singh’s practice allows her to relearn her Sikh identity from a diasporic positionality. A major interest for Mandeep is collaboration, letting go of ego and allowing art to be made by multiple hands. This can elevate work and create a space for artists and materials to speak with one another.
Singh reinvents the past and present through diverse materials, often working with natural and found objects. 




















2026

Vesta, Solace, Chinatown Melbourne CBD.

Grained, Balam Balam Place, Blak Dot Gallery, Brunswick.

2025

Bio(me), Melbourne Design Week, No Vacancy, Melbourne.

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






Rice Water 
As part of Grained at Blak Dot Gallery. 
 
  • Mud and Wheat Paste on Paper

  • Rice Water is an
  • experimental video and
  • performance work. 
The work refers to the severe water crisis in Punjab caused by rice cultivation, where millions of litres of water are consumed annually for rice farming, leading to rapidly depleting groundwater. 

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