Akil Ahamat is an artist that has spent too long sitting in the dark. It has ruined their eyes and rotted their brain. In their work they animate the non-human in order to talk to it. In the crinkles and whispers of these conversations, shapes of the inhuman forces that govern our lives emerge as well as our relationships to them.
Akil has most recently produced online works for Parramatta Artist Studios, Sydney Review of Books, and PACT, Erskineville. They have most recently exhibited physically at The Physics Room, Christchurch, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, Monash University Museum of Art, and UTS ART. Akil was shortlisted for the NSW Visual Arts Emerging Emerging Fellowship (2020) and was the winner of the John Fries Award, UNSW Galleries, Sydney (2018). Akil is currently a resident at The Clothing Stores Studios at Carriageworks.