Cindy Yuen-Zhe Chen works in Sydney on unceded Darramuragal and Gadigal lands. Her artistic practice examines how embodied listening and sounding can extend experimental drawing as a multi-sensory, emplaced process. Through interactions with the sounds, surfaces, people and atmospheric contingencies of places, Chen develops drawing, listening and sounding as interconnected practices that engender connections and enact distinct senses of places. As a part of these processes, she critically examines how her context as a female artist of migrant Malaysian-Chinese heritage shapes her relationships within Australia and internationally. Chen is currently a finalist for the 2021-22 NSW Visual Arts Emerging Fellowship and was recently a resident studio artist at Parramatta Artists’ Studio in 2020-21. As a recipient of the University Postgraduate Award, Chen completed a Doctor of Philosophy in Art, Design and Media at the University of New South Wales Art and Design in 2020.