About

​Amanda Bennetts is an Australian - Sunshine Coast-based (Kabi Kabi Country) artist whose practice is grounded in the lived experience of a body in flux, shaped by chronic illness and disability. Drawing on clinical and wellness aesthetics, she positions the body as a critical site of inquiry. Through large-scale immersive installations incorporating video, sound, and mass-produced objects, Bennetts explores how illness and care are mediated by culture, technology, and infrastructure. Her work presses against familiar narratives of health and wellness, asking who gets to define them and at what cost.

 

A Queensland College of Art graduate, she received the 2022 Best in Show prize and has presented solo exhibitions at Metro Arts (2022), Firstdraft and Outer Space Brisbane (2024), and UniSC Art Gallery (2026), the latter accompanied by a catalogue with an essay by Professor Susan Best. She was a finalist in the 2023 Churchie National Emerging Art Prize and won the 2025 Girra: Fraser Coast National Art Prize. In 2026 she was one of seven artists commissioned by the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA) for NEW26, presenting the major sculptural work Axis Mundi.

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Internationally, her work has been presented at Ars Electronica Festival (2023, 2024), ISEA 2024 + 2026, and CTM Festival’s MusicMakers Hacklab in Berlin (2024), as well as in group exhibitions in Thessaloniki, London and New York. In 2024, she was commissioned by the Sydney Opera House and Accessible Arts for the film Carve Crevice from Grace.