Amardeep Shergill is an emerging artist currently based in Melbourne. Her works often explore multiple themes, directly related to ideas of familial cultural connections, identity, migration, complexities and triumphs of belonging to multiple spatial environments.

Amardeep creates works using digital photographs of various local and foreign spatial environments that she has visited in the recent past. These works are women-centric and question displacement, dislocation and also connections and negotiations of women through the journey of migration. The dreamlike liminal mindscapes explore the possibilities of belonging to multiple places and the merging of local and global environments through multiple auto-ethnographic narratives.

Another aspect of her art practice involves looking at the possibility of re-interpretation of heritage through new materials and exploring familial connections and traditional craft making skills. In 2015, Shergill began to explore the possibility of re-interpreting traditional embroidery called ‘Phulkari’ which was practiced by her great-grandmother.

A surviving phulkari of her great-grandmother Dhan Kaur became source of inspiration to create sculptural forms. The artworks are created using perforated mesh and DMC embroidery thread. The sculptural forms attempt to build knowledge from traditional objects and exploring potential of material that is unconventional for the traditional technique and context.

 Amardeep graduated with Master of Visual Arts, majoring in Sculpture from the Australian National University in Canberra.