Artists

Si Yi Shen is an emerging artist based in Meanjin (Brisbane), working across digital collage, moving image, projection, and installation.

Their practice explores themes of placemaking, identity, and belonging through digital assemblage, where fragments of images, texts, emojis, and archival materials converge into interconnected visual worlds.

Recent projects include Shifting Perspectives (Bathurst Regional Gallery, 2025), Free Water (Worlding, Platform Arts Geelong, 2024), Imagining Terrains (Broken Hill City Gallery, 2023), and screened at Australian National Maritime Museum (as part of New Beginnings Festival 2024; Sydney Festival 2024). Other works include Auspicious Beasts AR Experience (EDGE Sydenham, 2023), In the Moment (Boronia Grove Community Centre, 2021), Sending You Love(Casula Powerhouse, 2021), and Living (Storybox Darling Harbour / Parramatta, 2021).

I have been recognised as a winner of the Queensland XR Festival (Digital Art category), and as a finalist in the Sunshine Coast Art Awards (2025), the Lumen Prize (2024), the Australian XR Festival (2023), and the Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize (2023, 2025).

In Residence at Bundanon

At Bundanon, I will be developing Paperless, a long-form video work that explores intergenerational labour, obsolescence, and the intersection of digital and tactile forms. During the residency, I work with footage of my parents in their family-run offset printing business, highlighting embodied, manual processes that are fast disappearing in a paperless, automated world. During the residency, I will shape the film’s visual rhythm and emotional arc by actively storyboarding and sequencing existing footage. Alongside this, I will work hands-on with tactile gestures, folding, stacking and handling printed images, to bring physical labour back into my digital practice and test how images move between screen-based and material forms.