Ashleigh Hobbs, known by her artist name, Arnika (b. Australia) is a multidisciplinary artist and musician working across sound, performance, and lens-based media. Her practice explores feminine identity, bodily autonomy, and emotional extremity.

Drawing on personal narrative and embodied experience, her work collapses the boundary between subject and spectacle, examining how identity is shaped, distorted, and reclaimed under the gaze. Through sound, movement, and visual language, Arnika transforms vulnerability and exposure into sites of tension, catharsis, and reclamation.