Amba Sayal-Bennett is a British-Indian artist working across drawing, projection and sculptural installation. Her practice explores how methods of abstraction are exclusionary and performative, crafting boundaries between what is present, absent, and othered. Focusing on abstraction's extractive qualities, she traces the ways bodies are incorporated into larger systems of knowledge. Adopting a migratory logic, her work follows the movement of matter, knowledge and form across different sites, processes inherent to the diasporic experience.
Amba Sayal-Bennett lives and works in London. She received her BFA from Oxford University, her MA in History of Art from The Courtauld, and her MA in Sculpture from the Royal College of Art. She was awarded her PhD in Art Practice and Learning from Goldsmiths and has published her practice-based research with Tate Papers. Between January and March 2022, she was The Derek Hill Foundation scholar at the British School at Rome in Italy.