Amrit Singh Sandhu

Amrit Singh Sandhu’s (b. 1997) practice merges the worlds of painting and fashion/modelling, working predominantly with oil and water-based pigments, found
textiles and embroidery. Born and raised in Punjab, she attained a Bachelor of Fine Arts at Pratt Institute, New York in 2020, and is currently living/working in London.

Trained as an oil painter, her work embarks on a metamorphic journey through which the shaping of new forms and visual meanings simulates her own personal adapting to changing environments. Relocating herself indefinitely, her practice is concerned with forming links between her dual vocational pathways. Recent works range from playing with stretched canvases in the studio to making wearable-portable paintings in the form of various garments. The invented characters in her paintings encounter a liberation from their conventional standpoints as they enter new realms of mobility, versatility and significance parallel to the intuitive material experiments themselves.

Sandhu's heritage grounds the base for her curiosities. Looking back in time in a performance of introspection, nostalgia becomes layered with new gatherings of knowledge and experience in foreign yet familiar cultures. Discovering new homes as she travels through life, Sandhu uses old and new family photos as guides, the echoes of which - met with a child-like sensitivity - mould new imaginative beings and spaces distorted and coloured. 

Sandhu's work has been auctioned at Bonhams, London and included in their recent exhibition You Also Live In Someone's Eyes (2025). Press coverage includes Vogue and Verve Magazine.