The Substation/ Artist/Amrita Hepi/
Amrita is an artist and choreographer based between Naarm/Melbourne and Bangkok. Born in Townsville, Amrita’s family hails from Budjulung, Ngapuhi, Polish and Irish ancestry. Her interest as an artist is in the idea of archive, particularly in relation to the body and how it is organised by people/events – beyond archives being documentation, or a bureaucratic entity. Amrita coalesces fact and fiction, memoir and ethnography, the local and the singular into the performance work she makes. Amrita trained at NAISDA & Alvin Ailey NYC, and her work sits between live performance and moving image. A critically acclaimed artist, she has twice been named winner of the People’s Choice Award as part of the Keir Choreographic Award, was part of the Forbes 30 under 30 for artists, and has shown and been commissioned nationally and internationally.
At present her work Scripture for a smokescreen: Dolphin House is showing at NGV in October; Straight Torque: Twin Series opened at Anna Schwartz Gallery in September; and Soothsayer Serenades is circulating at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art NYC, ahead of touring performance work RINSE in North America.
Amrita is an Artistic Associate for RISING, where she is also part of the board of directors. She is represented by Anna Schwartz Gallery.
