Bamboo Breathing Ink Workshop

Cindy Yuen-Zhe Chen practices in Sydney on Darramuragal and Gadigal lands. Her expanded drawing, sound and video practice engages embodied listening and sounding to examine Southeast Asian Chinese diasporic identity as a generative and emplaced process. Through interactions with people and the material contingencies of places, Chen develops drawing, listening and sounding as interwoven practices that enact connections between ancestral trajectories and lived experiences.

Photo credit: Taiyo Totsuka

Bamboo Entwine as they Grow has been developed in collaboration by Bankstown Arts Centre (Western Sydney) and the Museum of Art and Culture, yapang (Lake Macquarie). This two-part exhibition focusses on the practices of three artists Tiyan Baker, Dr. Cindy Yuen-Zhe Chen and Sarah Ong, presenting new and loaned artwork across both sites. The three artists have used bamboo to explore themes of labour, love, resilience and life transplanted, each through their own contemporary bamboo practice.