About Me
Jasmeen Sidhu
I am a Canadian artist currently based in Brisbane, Australia, working across painting, illustration, and textile-based mediums. My practice explores memory, intimacy, and the everyday through a Punjabi diasporic lens—blending traditional materials with contemporary storytelling.
After earning a BFA in Illustration from Emily Carr University of Art + Design in 2021, I’ve continued to develop my practice through freelance work, live event painting, and murals. I’m currently pursuing a Master’s in Visual Arts at Queensland College of Art, where I’m expanding my exploration of cultural memory and intimate domestic spaces.
Whether through oil, gouache, or fabric dyes, I allow the idea to guide the medium. My work often draws from shared rituals and inherited histories, inviting quiet reflection on identity and belonging.
Artist Statement
My art practice is a personal and cultural inquiry into the ways memory and intimacy shape identity—particularly within the Punjabi diaspora. I am interested in how domestic spaces and everyday objects become vessels for inherited stories, and how painting can preserve and reimagine these intimate narratives.
Through a process-led approach, I use both traditional and textile-based materials—muslin, cotton, oil, and dye—to create layered works that exist between the remembered and the imagined. Drawing influence from Intimist painters like Vuillard and Bonnard, I anchor my practice in the quiet moments of home: folded fabrics, lived-in interiors, familiar gestures. These visual cues carry both personal weight and collective resonance.
I approach my work as both a conversation with memory and a method of preservation. My pieces do not aim to provide definitive answers but rather open space for reflection, especially around the complexities of diasporic identity—what it means to belong to a culture, a history, a place you’ve never lived but deeply feel.
In choosing process over perfection and material over medium, I hope to offer viewers an experience of intimacy: the kind found in details, slowness, and the in-between.
Selected Works
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