ABOUT NIRMA MADHOO
Nirma Madhoo (she/her) is a fashion filmmaker and XR creator with a Ph.D. from the College of Design and Social Context, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. She also holds a MTech: Fashion (DUT) and a MA: Fashion Photography from London College of Fashion (UAL). Nirma’s projects are interdisciplinary, and her research investigates fashioned bodies as performative matter and posthuman performance in virtual and augmented realities. She recently participated in La Biennale di Venezia College Cinema VR and her work has shown internationally in UK, Germany, France, Italy, South Africa, US, Canada and Australia at fashion, film and digital festivals and conferences such as Milan Fashion Week, Melbourne Fashion Festival, London Short Film Festival, Berlinale EFM, MUTEK Montréal, ISEA, Ars Electronica, SXSW and SIGGRAPH Asia.
EXHIBITION
2025 New Images, Paris, FR
2024 Ars Electronica, Linz, AT | ISEA, Brisbane, AU | SXSW, Austin, US
2023 SIGGRAPH Asia, Sydney, AU | SXSW Sydney, AU | Creation Africa, Paris, FR
2022 Digital Motions | 664 Collins Street | RMIT x Grimshaw Architects, Melbourne, AU
2021 MUTEK Montreal, Canada | Afrikanisches Filmfestival Hamburg, Germany | Melbourne Fashion Festival, R3Vision, MARS Gallery, AU
2020 VAMFF, Nocturnal, Melbourne Museum, AU
2019 Berlinale EFM European Film Market, Berlin, DE | Afrika Film Festival, Köln, DE | Africa in Motion, Edinburg, SCT | TMRW Gallery, Johannesburg, ZA | Isivivana Khayelitsha, KZN, ZA | Shnit Worldwide Shortfilmfestival, Cape Town, ZA | Fak'ugesi Digital Festival, Johannesburg, ZA
2018 Aesthetica Short Film Festival, UK
2017 Aesthetica Short Film Festival, UK | Berlin Fashion Film Festival, DE
2016 Aesthetica Short Film Festival, UK
2015 London Short Film Festival, ICA, UK | Melbourne Fashion Festival, Fashion & Performance: Materiality, Meaning, Media, RMIT, AU
CONTACT nirma(at)anatomythestudio(dot)com