CHINESE RESTAURANT PLAYGROUND

• Gallery Exhibition
• Animation
• Illustration
• Archival Photographs & Videos
• Installation
• Sculpture

Chinese Restaurant Playground is a multimedia exhibition about childhood, imaginative play, and finding joy within the frenetic settings of my family’s Chinese restaurant located in Branxton NSW.

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.
 
Through multilingual animations, videos, sculptures, 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.