Chia is a visual artist with a diverse practice who has exhibited widely, including exhibitions at Hackney Museum, London E8, The Performance Space and the Blue Mountains Portrait Exhibition. BA Political Science and Fine Arts, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC where she also studied drawing with B.C. Binning and screenprinting with Tony Onley. Communications manager with the CSIRO, Division of Applied Physics and a lecturer at UTS. Senior Journalist, Newspaper Guild of America and is a Certified Iyengar Yoga teacher.