Aimee Meng is a fibre-based interdisciplinary artist living and working in Cammeraygal/North Sydney. She holds a Bachelor of Architectural Studies from the University of New South Wales, and a Master of Fine Arts from the Fibre department at the Cranbrook Academy of Art. Her work has been exhibited internationally at Trestle Art Space, New York, Arts Project Australia & West Space, Pari and the International Bad Video Art Festival in Moscow. Meng has had solo exhibitions at Gaffa and The Waiting Room Project inside the Sydney Sexual Health Centre. She is also a finalist in the Wyndham Art Prize (2021) and Blacktown City Art Prize (2024). Recent publications include Curious Magazine, PULP and Orangepeel.

Meng’s practice stems from a fascination with kawaii culture and psychoanalysis. Drawing influences from manga and anime, she employs textile techniques to investigate the ambivalent nature of issues concerning infantilisation, fetish, domesticity and more. Fabricated personas act as surrogates in her narratives, embodying the emotions and psyche of those who are often wandering along the periphery of a phallocentric social fabric. These simulacra oscillate between the sweet and the perverse, the infantile and the adult, in a world where reality and fantasy, the imaginary and the symbolic all become increasingly superimposed. Through craft Meng exercises what she calls “saccharine feminism”, which allows her to disrupt notions surrounding femininity and the home as a “safe haven”, while re-examining domestic stereotypes, namely the house wife and the otaku.