Vedika Rampal

Vedika Rampal is an emerging Indian-born artist whose post-disciplinary practice intuitively oscillates between image and image forms, using sculpture, textiles, photography and text to interrogate Western museological modalities enshrined in colonial optics.

Drawing upon inherited memories, fictive imaginings and archival research, Rampal’s work reflects upon the duality of trauma and yearning, capture and resistance, loss and agency, innate to these histories, to suggest the simultaneity of counternarratives to imperial legacies. She has been recently selected as a finalist for the 2025 Artspace Fellowship and was the recipient of the Dr. Harold Schenberg Award as part of the Hatched National Graduate Showcase 2024 at PICA. Her work has been exhibited at Dominik Mersch Gallery, UNSW Galleries, Firstdraft Gallery, Brunswick Street Gallery, and Airspace Projects. In 2023, Vedika was the sole recipient of the TWT Excellence Prize in Fine Arts at UNSW Galleries Annual Graduate Show, a highly commended finalist in the Olive Cotton Award at Tweed Regional Gallery and a finalist in the Fisher Ghost Prize at Campbelltown Arts Centre.

Vedika was also awarded the longest-standing painting prize at UNSW Art and Design, the Jenny Birt Award in 2022 and the Kudos Emerging Artist Award in 2021.