SENTOSA MAM
aka TWELVEBYTWELVE
“… is a Khmer/ខ្មែរ artist working across textiles, painting, collage and found materials. Mam’s work explores her synergetic "third-culture" identity navigating life between Cambodia and Australia. Sexuality, identity, ideals in representations of beauty, traditional expectations and subverting paradigmatic "norms" and conditioned notions are themes embodied in her work.
Saturated in raw creativity Mam plays with fabrics and threads, paper cut-outs, depictions of thoughts and memories in monochromatic paintings, and combining found
objects under her artist pseudonym twelvebytwelve.
Mam creates a visionary world of bad-ass sexy energy evocative of her freedom of expression that channels a voice deep in self-exploration, heritage, and feminist politics.”
-Asha maria madge
CV
upcoming
ARISE 3
october 2024
ZAP exhibitions | Abbotsford convent
group exhibition curated by Nicky tsTsekouras for diverse and
emerging artists
supported by Melbourne Fringe festival and creative victoria
BODIES OF WATER
october 2024
international poster biennial | Mexico
participant in collaboration with N0 reply collective for their work in the ecos creative festival
VISUAL DIARY 1st BIRTHDAY
AUGUST 2024
Visual diary gallery | Brunsiwck
group exhibition celebrating gallery’s first anniversary
CAPTURE PRESENTS:
DENSE NEBULA SHOWCASE
AUGust 2024
Myaeon | brunswick
International music label event featuring local acts - solo archive exhibition
COLLECTIVE
JUly 2024
Honey bones gallery & Spaces of play | brunswick
co-curator / artist in the community exhibition and book launch of the theme “Where strength lies”
supported by Merri-bek council
INCOGNITO ART SHOW
July 2024
oxford street pop-up | Eora sydney
participant in non-for-profit fundraising event for artists
charity partners include: Studio A and We are studios
CONJUNCTION
april 2024
Curve furniture | Abbotsford
group exhibition curated by im your pal sal
ART ACADEMY
may 2024
Sandringham college | Sandringham
textile design: embroidery & Crochet instructor
SENTOSA MAM
PRESENTS:
september 2023
visual diary gallery | brunswick
solo exhibition showcasing archival collection and recent works
INSITU
2019
royal Melbourne institute of technology | brunswick
bachelor of arts: textile design - graduate show
FORBIDDEN LOVE
2017
the art bar | Phnom penh
group exhibition centred around the SOUTH-east asian folklore of sovanna maccha and hanuman
