I acknowledge the traditional custodians of the land on which I live and practice, the Gadigal people of the Eora nation. I pay my respects to the elders past, present and emerging. Always Was, Always Will Be, Aboriginal Land.

About

I am an interdisciplinary Australian-Chinese artist living and working on Gadigal land. My drawing practice uses media as diverse as sound, performance and installation alongside more traditional media like charcoal and graphite. I approach drawing as a process, a temporal art that unfolds in time. In hindsight, my practice is a sustained inquiry into drawing's ontology: what it is, how it works, where its limits lie, and how it might hold and make sense of the present moment. I approach my curatorial practice in a similar way, as a form of drawing research.

In 2022, I completed a Master of Fine Art (Drawing) at National Art School, where my research examined conceptions of time across physics, philosophy and human biology. That inquiry continues to inform an experimental process attentive to the ways drawing, its materials and its situations perform their inherent temporalities. In addition I have completed a Bachelor of Visual Art (Painting) at Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney, and a Bachelor of Industrial Design (Honours) at the University of Canberra.

I am co-founder and director of DRAW Space gallery in Sydney, a non-profit artist-run space focused on contemporary and experimental drawing practices. I founded the online portal, DRAWSTORE which allows collectors to find and purchase the best of contemporary Australian drawing. I was also on the transition board of Articulate Project Space in 2022.

I have presented solo and group exhibitions across Australia, Hong Kong, the United Kingdom and France. I have been a finalist in national awards including the Ravenswood Australian Women's Art Prize, Fisher's Ghost Art Award, National Works on Paper Prize, Hazelhurst Art on Paper Award, and the Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing. My work is held in the permanent collection of the National Art School, Capella Sydney, Tamworth Regional Gallery, and in private collections in Australia and internationally.

Belinda Yee