Salina Lam is a Melbourne-based visual artist whose work explores belonging, identity, and the quiet connections between nature and memory. She combines hand drawings and raw photography as a form of creative therapy, crafting spaces for reflection and escape. Inspired by the textures, colour, and stories of the natural world, her practice is a continuous journey of storytelling and exploration.

Sometimes she looks into the notion of no place and imagines an ideal escape land picked out of her fragmented pieces of memories. Someday, it will be the realm of light, the life within the inanimate wonders she is surrounded by. It comes up with a flash of moment, a glance, a song, a letter, a colour, and a feeling.

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Native proficiency in Vietnamese
Professional proficiency in English.

Education:

• Master in Teaching (Early Childhood), Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia, 2025 – Present
• BA (Hons) Textile Design, Chelsea College of Arts, London, United Kingdom, 2019- 2022
• (Certificate in Higher Education) International Preparation for Fashion, London College of Fashion, London, United Kingdom, 2018-2019

Award:

• UOB Painting of the Year 2023, Vietnam, Gold in Emerging Artist Cagetory

Group Exhibition:

• 2023, UOB Painting of the Year, Vietnam National Fine Arts Museum, Hanoi, Vietnam
• 2025, Face to Face Revisited, Deakin University Art Gallery, Burwood, Melbourne.