Artist Bio

Jasmine Lee’s work is multidisciplinary, spanning painting, sculpture, photography, digital, and mixed media. She has a background in Fine Art, where she was trained as an artist and curator. Her neurodiverse practice explores the cross-pollination between conceptual art processes and food manufacturing systems, an industry where she has worked for over a decade. Lee is 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. She grew up in a Eurocentric social environment, so her output and research interests largely reflect this estrangement that multicultural people often face.

Lee is currently making diagrammatic work on Adobe Illustrator and uses 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 echoes sleek corporate signage. These are articulated through the iterative process of documenting cognitive labour. She has a studio at home, built on a former factory site, and develops work in solitude, valuing a process-led enquiry more than viewer-driven production. The tension is in what Lee sees in test pieces, where the result supersedes work for galleries, as test pieces allow a mindset for mistakes and improvisation. Working at home maximises creative labour for Lee, as it allows her to conserve energy instead of commuting and mask from being twice-exceptional in a culture that isn’t accepting of a full range of neurodiversity.

Lee is interested in collaborating with local manufacturing companies in the Midlands to produce works that extend beyond the limits of individual studio production.