Niyanta Sharma

Niyanta Sharma is a multidisciplinary artist based in Naarm / Melbourne currently undertaking her Masters of Architecture. Her practice considers and deconstructs architectural conceptions of space, and reimagines the ways a dweller may occupy and interact with a form. Niyanta draws on personal notions of diaspora and home, creating playful structures that blur the line between the sculptural and functional.

Wominjeka (Welcome). We acknowledge the Yaluk-ut Weelam as the traditional custodians of the land on which we meet. Yaluk-ut Weelam means ‘people of the river camp’ and is connected with the coastal land at the head of Port Phillip Bay, extending from the Werribee River to Mordialloc. The Yaluk-ut Weelam are part of the Boon Wurrung, one of the five major language groups of the greater Kulin Nation. We pay our respects to the land, their ancestors and their elders—past, present and to the future.