Grace Lee
Overview
“The shadow of a palm tree looms against a blank wall, its dominating presence conjuring a pressure at odds with its jovial shape: be public, be fun, be happy – as well as the ever-present fear that the party might be happening somewhere else.” - Grace Lee
In an immediate, bold and graphic style, Grace Lee invites their audience to look twice. Using repeated motifs of various instruments, portraits, and animals, Lee’s paintings recreate scenes seemingly pulled from a comic book or mediaeval manuscript. Taking inspiration from the British Museum’s collection, Japanese artist Utagawa Hiroshige, and the New Testament, Lee’s intricately detailed works continue to reveal new secrets.
Biography
Grace Lee (b.1995, UK) is an artist working across painting and animation, based in London. They graduated with a BA in Fine Art from Goldsmiths, University of London in 2017 followed by completing an MFA in Fine Art at the Slade School of Fine Art in 2021. They were awarded the Prankerd Jones Memorial Prize in 2020 and the Bartolomeu dos Santos Memorial Prize in 2021.
Their work has featured in multiple group exhibitions with galleries such as: Huxley Parlour, London (2023 and 2022); Andrea Festa, Online (2023); Pang Projects, London (2022); South Parade, London (2022); VO Curations, London (2022); ASC Gallery, London (2020) and Mall Galleries, London (2018).
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