Tiyan Baker

Tiyan Baker is an Australian-Bornean artist based in Newcastle. Her practice draws on historical research, language, digital processes and material play to trace unseen relationships between words, place and stories. Centring her Bidayǔh culture in her works, Baker is also interested in things she has unknowingly inherited. Living far from native lands, culture and family, in the midst of the (re)colonisation of Borneo, she explores all that can be mistranslated or lost, and what can manifest in its place. She has shown her works widely across the Asia Pacific region, and is the winner of the 2022 National Photography Prize awarded by the Murray Art Museum Albury.