Cass Li is an emerging artist and writer with a creative documentary practice from South West Sydney. Her essayistic work, often drawing on her Chinese Timorese-Indonesian heritage, seeks connection in present and ancestral realities. Through film and photography, she explores the moving boundaries of insider/outsider across time, place, and memory. Her graduate film, the sign of a frog (2022), was screened at Antenna Documentary Film Festival and she subsequently attended the Australian International Documentary Conference as a Leading Lights creative.
Passionate for making arts accessible and inclusive she undertook an internship with Accessible Arts and Art Gallery of NSW in 2023. In 2024 she worked as a mental health peer worker. She was supported by grants from Accessible Arts and CreateNSW which funded an artist residency in Portugal where she initiated research for a personal documentary project. She is continuing to develop this work in CuriousWorks’ Future Culture artist residency.
