Shin is a self-taught creative-dabbler, who loves playing and making with various mediums like paper, ink and string. She deeply believes in the innate power of creativity that resides in each person, and how art making can nurture, heal and attend to our wellbeing.
Shin uses art making as a way of attending to her curiosity and confusion of the conscious and unconscious world. Investigating the emotional landscape and lived realities through visual imagery, movement, colours and forms. She is fascinated by the end(u)/earing balance between our psychic and somatic beings, capturing the liminal and ephemeral in our lives through spontaneous mark making and movement. These explorations and experiments are often set within a context mirroring the social milieu of our chaotic times.
Schooled in Film, Sociology and Art Psychotherapy both in Southeast Asia and the UK, she has been involved in community and social activism through various group exhibitions, creative campaigns and interventions. Her projects resonate with connections and community building through considerate communication.
She has freelanced with Ark-T since 2023 planning and leading Creative Wellbeing Workshops for adults, Theatre Making Workshops with youth and a contributing team member in Creative Camps for children.
Shin is a mental health first aider and Art Therapist registered with BAAT.