Belinda Yee

Opens 5 October / 2 – 4pm
Runs 3 – 13 October 2019

Scratch Space Gallery is pleased to present Entropy, a new exhibition by Belinda Yee. The exhibition includes a large tape installation that slowly changes over the duration of the show, and a series of monotype prints. For these new process works, Belinda uses tape installation and printing techniques to investigate the ‘life of the mark’ in drawing.

The tape installation represents the latest development in her ongoing interest and research in ephemeral art. Belinda’s previous ephemeral works were drawings in tape, chalk and rice. This new work extends the idea of ephemerality by highlighting the transition point at which the artist stops drawing (exhibition opening) and the work continues to autonomously evolve (disassemble). The exhibited drawing is a product of the artists hand and environmental factors like air currents.

In contrast, the monotype prints investigate ways of extending the life of the mark. In some works, the trace of previous drawings are layered to produce new drawings, in others Belinda plays with the legibility of the mark by re-printing it over and over.

The drawings in the Entropy exhibition ultimately surface a sense of ephemerality, mutability and plasticity in the ‘life of the mark’.

Biography

Belinda Yee is an Australian artist working in printmaking, drawing, and installation. Her work is concerned with temporality, ephemerality, gesture and unselfconscious, insistent mark making.

Belinda’s work sits between abstraction and representation, her aim is to be present in the moment of drawing and be responsive to the ongoing conversation with the drawn line. Belinda’s central motivation is investigating the life of the mark, exploring the intrinsic dialogue between artist and drawing to capture what is essential.

She gained her Bachelor of Visual Art (Painting) at Sydney College of the Arts, Sydney University. Early in her career Belinda moved to Hong Kong where she made wash paintings as a meditation on her relationship to Chinese culture and her Australian-Chinese heritage. Later, during her BVA Belinda made ephemeral, process oriented chalk board drawings. On graduating, these evolved into temporary rice and tape installations. More recently Belinda has been investigating the process of drawing and the unselfconscious, insistent mark by making monotypes.

Belinda has exhibited in group and solo exhibitions in Australia and Hong Kong. Her work is held in private collections in Australia, Singapore, Hong Kong and the United States.