I am a gender fluid migrant settler from Taiwan, who arrived in Australia in 2009 as a seasonal worker. I am currently residing and working on the Gadigal and Bidjigal lands of the Eora nation. I am an intersectionality practitioner, an alchemist and a performance artist, a researcher and a bog wonderer. I held a process led multidisciplinary art practice and explore the legacy of my lived experience with post-memory, intergenerational trauma and resilience in both the settler colonial nations, Australia and Taiwan. My interest of my art practice resides in the fields of performance and installation art, ecology and environmental humanities, in particular wetlands ecology, agriculture and settlement. My bodily art practice is an offering to hold space for vulnerability, transience and ephemerality.
I hold a MArt (Painting, 2015) from UNSW Art & Design, and I am currently a MPhil candidate (2019 - 2021) at UNSW Art & Design. I was the recipient for the Australian Government Research Training Program Scholarship (2019-2021) and Viktoria Marinov Scholarship (2019-2020), Waverley Art Prize 2016, Highly Commended for UNSW Emerging Artist Kudos Award 2015; I have been exhibited internationally, including solos at Stacks Projects, AIRSpace Projects, Sydney. Group Exhibitions at Firstdraft, Cat Street Gallery, HK, Beyond Belfast, Ireland, and the curatorial program “Doing Feminism/Sharing the World” by Prof. Anne Marsh with FavourEconomy in Melbourne, 2017 - 2019. I am currently working on my dissertation and a body of artwork based on my migrant settler’s perspective on agriculture and settlement in Australian peatlands. I am currently working with the Stand With Tess campaign and Nirin Sydney Biennale exhibiting Canada/Silsika Natiion artist Adrian Stimson for Buffalo Boy’s Last Stand performance piece at the Campbelltown Arts Centre in support of Uncle Vic Chapman and Tess Allas.
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For any enquiry, please email me at stellachenart@gmail.com