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Amrit Singh Sandhu (b. 1997, India) is a contemporary artist based in London.

Working primarily with oil and water-based pigments, found textiles, and embroidery, Amrit Singh Sandhu creates paintings that traverse the thresholds between material, memory, and transformation. Trained as an oil painter, Sandhu earned her BFA from Pratt Institute, New York (2020). Her practice charts a process of adaptation, both formally and personally, as she negotiates the shifting environments that shape her diasporic identity.

Her recent works extend painting into sculptural and performative dimensions, from stretched and altered canvases to wearable, portable forms. Within these hybrid pieces, invented characters find liberation from static frames, inhabiting new states of movement and exchange. Sandhu’s heritage underpins her visual vocabulary: archival family photographs and recollections become points of departure for layered reinterpretation, where nostalgia merges with discovery. The resulting figures and spaces, infused with childlike sensitivity, evoke both displacement and belonging - a poetic of becoming that mirrors her ongoing negotiation of home.

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