🪷 ᜃᜇᜒ / 林嘉蓮
Carielyn Tunion-Lam (she/they) is a writer, videopoet, artist and cultural worker with a background in screen and media arts. She has also worked in the community sector supporting migrant and refugee women; and has experience in creative approaches for grassroots community organising.
Carielyn’s practice is central to her self-expression—places where she can create, recreate, destroy and regenerate; where she can write and rewrite herself and the stories for which she’s a conduit.
Her work explores themes of yearning and radical nostalgia, as well as ritual and folklore through an anticolonial diasporic perspective. She is interested in conjuring worlds, cracking open the ancestral bone to suck the marrow of identity, desire, and myth.
Her work has been supported by CuriousWorks, Sydney Opera House, Mascara Literary Review, kindling & sage, Emerging Writers Festival, SBS Filipino, Creature Magazine and KAP Magazine. She is currently doing postgraduate study in literature at WSU.
Carielyn’s ancestral roots are in the archipelago of the so-called Philippines and Kowloon, Hong Kong. She currently lives, studies, works and treads respectfully on unceded Burramattagal on Dharug country.
