Amanda Bennetts

Most Recent Affiliation(s):

• Art and Design

ISEA Bio(s) Available:

• ISEA2024

  Amanda Bennetts is an Australian new media and installation artist based on the Sunshine Coast (Kabi Kabi Country). Living with a progressive neurological disease and a rare muscular disease, Bennetts harnesses her lived experience to critically explore themes of care, illness, and disability. Her work probes the politically charged and socially determined realms of living as an ill body, creating large immersive installations that blend materiality with emerging technology, video, sound, and mass-produced objects within clinical and disability aesthetics. A Queensland College of Art and Design graduate, Bennetts was awarded with the 2022 Industry Graduation Award for Best In Show. Her installations have been featured in solo exhibitions at Sydney’s Firstdraft and Brisbane’s Metro Arts. Bennetts was also a finalist in the 2023 Churchie National Emerging Art Prize, showcasing her work at the Institute of Modern Art in Brisbane. In 2023, she expanded her international presence by exhibiting at the Ars Electronica festival, presenting a collaborative piece developed during the Ars Electronica x IT:U FOUNDING LAB Summer School. More recently, Amanda completed a residency at CTM Festival’s MusicMakers Hacklab in Berlin, where she was selected with 9 international artists to explore the festival theme ‘Sustenance.’ Her collaborative project, ‘Untuning Rituals,’ blended experimental sounds and body movement, culminating in a live performance at Berlin’s Radialsystem Halle.