BIO

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. She creates large immersive installations that intertwine materiality with emerging technologies, video, sound, and mass-produced items, drawing on clinical and disability aesthetics to probe the politically-charged and socially-determined experience of living as an ill body.

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Following a Bachelor of Visual Art at Queensland College of Art (QCA), Bennetts was awarded the 2022 Industry Graduation Award, Best In Show. Since graduating, she has staged solo exhibitions at notable galleries including Sydney's Firstdraft (2024) and Brisbane's Metro Arts (2023) and in was a finalist in the prestigious 2023 Churchie National Emerging Art Prize, held at the Institute of Modern Art (IMA), Brisbane. The same year she expanded her international presence by exhibiting a collaborative work, developed within the highly selective Ars Electronica x IT:U FOUNDING LAB Summer School, at Ars Electronica festival. More recently, Bennetts completed a residency at CTM Festival's MusicMakers Hacklab in Berlin, where she was selected as one of 10 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. In 2024, she had the solo show ‘Stealth Care: Wellness from the Algorithm’ as a juried artist at the International Symposium of Electronic Art (ISEA) at Outer Space in Brisbane.