Celine Cheung (b.1997) is a visual artist based on unceded Dharug land (Western Sydney). Working across performance, installation and image-making, she uses symbolic gestures to explore relationships and affective life. Her art is often guided by visceral responses to love and loss, but she is also interested in excavating the uncanny, uncomfortable or embarrassing.
Since completing a BFA/BA at UNSW Art & Design, she presented projects and exhibitions at Firstdraft, Diversity Arts Australia, AirSpace Projects etc. She was the recipient of the HIDDEN Sculpture Prize in 2023, and a finalist at the 68th Blake Prize and Burwood Art Prize. She is a Co-director of artist-run gallery Pari and a resident at Parramatta Artists’ Studios Granville.
In 2021, she founded a sustainable accessory label Nu Talisman (@nu.talisman), focused on creating jewellery with natural and upcycled materials. Nu Talisman’s ethereal designs celebrated fantasy, cosmology and cinema with a cult online following, and embraced by the Sydney creative community.
Photo by Jacqui Manning, taken at PAS Rydalmere
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