Chew Shaw En is an artist, performer and performance maker. Her continually emerging practice stretches across mediums such as the body, material, image, text and movement. She performs in her own work and also performs for others. Stylistically, she draws upon the spectrum of fantasy to the vernacular, rooted in her love of fantasy and world-building, and also her socially engaged work with people and communities. In the language of her scenes, she likes to travel the scale of abstraction to everyday movement. Shaw is interested in making work that challenges the audience to think about relationships differently. 

Her most recent projects include ‘Unsuspecting Guardians Cutting a Path Through Dust’ a series of public murals along a walkway that feature outlines of unique physical dynamics and relationships between adults and children observed within the Boon Lay neighbourhood that often go unnoticed. This was part of Seeing The Obvious an annual 3pumpkins community action project; dblspce residency, where she reflects on materiality in the performance maker’s language and the responsibilities and real world resonances that come with it.

For the past 2 years, Shaw has been a creative facilitator at Tak Takut Kids Club on performance nights called community getai. She does projects and runs movement workshops for and with neurodivergent children with Superhero Me.