CHINESE RESTAURANT PLAYGROUND
Upcoming Exhibition Dates
Maitland Regional Art Gallery: June 21st 2025 – August 24th 2025
Past Exhibition Dates
Footscray Community Arts: 12th June 2024 – 15 September 2024
• Gallery Exhibition
• Animation
• Illustration
• Archival Photographs & Videos
• Installation
• Sculpture











Having served four generations of customers for over 40 years, my parents’ Chinese restaurant, Yee’s, was the backdrop of my childhood. From rollerblading on the tiles through the restaurant, using pot lids as cymbals, making play dough from spring roll pastry batter, and riding a motorbike in the yard behind the restaurant, this exhibition is an artistic documentation of my memories as a child of Malaysian-Chinese restaurant owners in Branxton.
The exhibition presents a multimedia collection of works exploring my experience growing up in the regional NSW town of Branxton. Through multilingual animations, videos, illustrations and photographs, Chinese Restaurant Playground seeks to humanise the people behind the ‘local Chinese restaurant’, whose stories risk being lost due to language barriers and a long record of cultural history that predominantly spotlights Anglo-Celtic and European migration – particularly in regional Australian narratives.
Umami & Yee’s Spring Rolls – Fine Art Prints
Umami and Yee’s Spring Rolls, are digitally illustrated fine art prints from Chinese Restaurant Playground which are available for purchase.
Size: A3
Paper Stock: Hahnemühle paper, 308 GSM.
Please get in contact if you would like to purchase a print.






