Cigdem Aydemir is a Sydney based artist of Turkish Muslim heritage. Her interdisciplinary art practice incorporates installation, performance and video. She explores the convergence of gender, religious and cultural identities including themes of body politics and intersectionality. Much of her work interrogates the void between body and dress as well as its social and political implications. Coming from a fashion design background and being the daughter of a tailor, her conspicuous use of fabric simultaneously holds, falls, conceals and reveals, adorns and obfuscates. Her work is consistently provocative, discursive and personal. Aydemir was the 2013 recipient of the Redlands Konica Minolta Art Prize in the emerging artist category and the Freedman Foundation Travelling Arts Scholarship. In 2012 she received the Edna Ryan Award for Creative Feminism as well as Highly Commended for the John Fries Memorial Prize.