Vedika Rampal

Vedika Rampal

Recently graduated with BA/BFA Honours in Fine Arts from UNSW Art and Design, Vedika Rampal is an Indian-born Australian emerging artist practicing on on the land of Darug and GuriNgai peoples. Using a post-disciplinary poetics within an expansive installation practice, Rampal’s work seeks to excavate histories, objects and sites from her cultural past within her diasporic present. Particularly, Rampal interrogates the colonial violences shrouding the South Asian consciousness in the aftermath of the Empire, by drawing upon inherited memories, fictive imaginings and archival research and documents. In exploring the dual trauma and yearning, plunder and resistance, inscription and re-inscription within museological and gendered colonial contexts, Rampal’s practice simultaneity the simultaneity of counternarratives to imperial histories.

Rampal’s work has been shown in solo and group shows across Sydney and Melbourne such as at Dominik Mersch Gallery, Brunswick Street Gallery, VCA Artspsace, and Goodspace gallery. She has also been awarded the TWT Excellence Award in Fine Arts

(2023), highly commended for the Olive Cotton Award (2023), finalist in the Fisher Ghost Prize (2023) and awarded the winner of the Jenny Birt Award (2022) and the Kudos Emerging Artist Award (2021).