Celine Cheung

Celine Cheung is a visual artist working on unceded Darug land. Currently, she finds it difficult to define her multi-disciplinary emerging practice. Instead, she allows herself to float through bursts of creative pursuits in different disciplines. In the past, she created performance, video installations, painting and prints. Recently, Cheung has been exploring jewellery-making and collage. She loves plants, urban decay and ghosts.

In 2020, Cheung completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts/Arts at UNSW Art & Design. Since 2018, she has exhibited works with Diversity Arts Australia and AirSpace Projects etc. She is currently completing a residency with Parramatta Artists Studios in partnership with Wentworth Point Community Centre and Library, researching gothic fiction, shipwrecks and CALD displacement.

#3 | Faded Triptych, 2014-2022, intaglio etching, eucalyptus transfer, monotype with glass beads and Swarovski crystals, 19 x 7 cm and 19 x 13 cm, $345.

“A sparse mish mash of found botanical imagery and missized intaglio etching of insects. Like bookmarks with the wrong pauses. Like a postcard that was meant for more.”

Faded Triptych embodies the different mediums I enjoyed throughout my journey as an artist. The prints were created as a result of trying different methods when I first started learning printmaking. Then, these early experiments were reworked and embellished with delicate charms, as the craft of beading currently brings me joy and mindfulness.

Through revisiting old works, I rediscover past states of mind, patterns and my values that persisted through time – such as a spirit of experimentation that has always driven my artistic explorations. This work allows me to embrace craft as a part of my art practice, and to honour intuitive ways of making with attention to colours, aesthetics and feelings.