Amy Meng is a fiber-based interdisciplinary artist living and working on unceded Gadigal land. Her practice is influenced by kawaii culture, psychoanalysis, and craft histories. She holds a Bachelor of Architectural Studies from UNSW and a Master of Fine Arts from the Cranbrook Academy of Art. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including at Trestle Art Space in New York, Paris, and the International Bad Video Art Festival in Moscow. A finalist in the Wyndham Art Prize (2021) and Blacktown City Art Prize (2024), she recently completed a residency at The F Project. Meng’s work examines the complexities of kawaii culture, particularly its role in shaping perceptions of young women as innocent and submissive yet simultaneously abject and threatening. By juxtaposing candy wrappers with hair, she explores the feminization and fetishization of domestic labor, engaging in what she describes as a form of “saccharine feminism.”
