Belinda Yee

Photo by: Robin Hearfield

@belindayee | www.belindayee.com

Belinda Yee draws across media. Her text-works, poetry and sculpture are forms of drawing, ways of holding presence through the trace of lines. Impermanence is a strategy — an ethic of refusal. Her works are quiet, fugitive, provisional; resolutely contingent. Often resisting documentation, they ask to be met in person as gestures in time.

Thematically, Yee’s work explores political, cultural, and technological erasure, critically examining systems that deny basic humanity. Her approach is intimate, provisional, and rooted in materiality — favouring quietude over assertiveness. Often relational, her works engage with what it means to witness, remember, and resist.

Yee lives and works on Gadigal land. She holds an MFA (Drawing) from the National Art School, a BVA (Painting) from Sydney College of the Arts (University of Sydney), and a Bachelor of Industrial Design (Honours) from the University of Canberra. She has shown work in Australia, Hong Kong, the UK, and France, with works held in the collections of the National Art School and Capella Sydney. She has been a finalist in the National Works on Paper, Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize, Hadley’s Art Prize, and Fisher’s Ghost Art Award, among others.

She is co-founder and director of DRAW Space, an artist-run initiative for experimental drawing. She maintains a curatorial practice, has curated exhibitions with established and emerging, local and international artists, and is the recipient of an IMAGinE Curatorial Prize