Artist whose practice is shaped by manufacturing systems, labour and processes.
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About
My parents came over to the UK from Hong Kong in the 1990s, and I grew up in the West Midlands countryside. I studied Fine Art at University of Staffordshire and Birmingham School of Art. Going to university to study art was the first time I got access to arts and culture. After graduation, I worked in factories for a decade to financially support my art and have it shown locally in Birmingham, London and in different countries.
Artist Statement
Jasmine Lee (b. 1994, UK)
My work is multidisciplinary, spanning painting, sculpture, photography, digital, and mixed media, and also beyond making objects. I have a background in Fine Art, where I was trained as an artist and curator. My neurodiverse practice explores the cross-pollination between conceptual art processes and food manufacturing systems, an industry where she has worked for over a decade. I’m interested in institutional systems, labour and processes, informed by code-switching in factories, art institutions and academia, as well as switching linguistically between English and Cantonese at home and in public. I faced significant racial bullying and was marginalised for being neurodivergent intermittently throughout my life, with lifelong implications.
I’m currently making diagrammatic work on Adobe Illustrator and use curatorial skills to display digital representations onto physical media, such as different types of paper and metal plates, that capture the corporate white-collar aspirational identity and echo sleek corporate signage. These are articulated through the iterative process of documenting cognitive labour. I have a studio at home, built on a former factory site, and develop work in solitude, valuing a process-led enquiry more than viewer-driven production.
CV
Jasmine Lee
Born 1994, United Kingdom
Lives and works in Birmingham, UK
Education
MA Fine Art, Birmingham School of Art (Birmingham City University), 2021
BA (Hons) Fine Art, University of Staffordshire, 2017
Current show
Random Exhibition, LTB, Coventry until June 2026
Selected Group Shows
2025
EOP Summer Camp Show, Eastside Projects, Birmingham
2024
Alt+Space (Amass Collective) LTB, Coventry
For Funds Sakes, Stryx Minerva Works, Birmingham
Schemarium, Stryx JQ and Birmingham School of Art
RBSA Friends Exhibition, Birmingham
Absence (Amass Collective), Stryx JQ, Birmingham
2023
Birmingham Photography Community Exhibition, Stryx JQ
Aftermath Two (Amass Collective), Asylum Art Gallery, Wolverhampton
Homegrown, Stryx JQ, Birmingham
2022
Venice International Art Fair, Palazzo Albrizzi-Capello
Humanism, Maria Tsakos Cultural Foundation, Chios
2021
Surreal, Tebbs Online Gallery
Phased MA Online Show, Birmingham School of Art
2020
36th Annual Online, Southwark Park Galleries, London
2018
The Essential, Millepiani, Rome
ING Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London
2017
0.27 Degree Show, Cadman building, Staffordshire University, Stoke-on-Trent
2015
Smörgåsbord, Cadman building, Staffordshire University, Stoke-on-Trent
Selected Curation
2024
Alt+space, LTB Showrooms, Coventry
2023
Aftermath Two, Asylum Art Gallery, Wolverhampton
2015
Smörgåsbord, Cadman building, Staffordshire University, Stoke-on-Trent
Molecular Structures of My Art Practice, Science Centre, Stoke-on-Trent
2014
Inhale Exhale, Cadman building, Staffordshire University, Stoke-on-Trent
Publications
Deconstruction Zines, 2024
Alt+space, for Outsideleft Culture, 2024 – https://outsideleft.com/main.php?updateID=3263
not anOther autobiography, 2023
Artist Talks
2023
Summary of practice and Q&A at Aftermath Two Exhibition
Awards
2023
Shortlisted for the RA Academy exhibition
2019
Winner for Astronomy meets the arts competition at Warwick University
2018
Certificate of Excellence from the Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust for artwork
Memberships
Amass Collective
EOP at Eastside Projects
Associate member of Axis
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Research Interests
- Practice-based research
- Comparative research
- Auto-theoretical writing
Blog – Artist-Researcher WIP « a-n The Artists Information Company
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