Biography
Jennifer Lee OBE (b. Aberdeenshire, Scotland, UK 1956) studied ceramics and tapestry at Edinburgh College of Art (1975-9) and at the Royal College of Art, London (1983-5), following eight months on a travelling scholarship to the USA where she researched South-West Indian prehistoric ceramics and visited contemporary West Coast potters, including Peter Voulkos and Ken Price. She also went to Egypt, India, Australia and Japan as well as Europe. Lee has had exhbitions at Röhsska Musset in Göteborg, Sweden (1993); Aberdeen Museum and Art Gallery, Scotland (1994); and at Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, UK (2019). In 2009 Lee was invited by Issey Miyake to exhibit at his foundation in Tokyo, Japan, 21_21 Design Sight for the exhibition U-Tsu-Wa. She took part in the International Ceramic Art Festival in Sasama, Shizuoka, Japan (2013), was guest artist in residence at Shigaraki Ceramic Culture Park (2014, 2015 and 2018) and was artist in residence at Mashiko Museum of Ceramic Art (2019). Her work is represented in major public collections worldwide, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, The Philadelphia Museum of Art and Los Angeles County Museum. In 2018 she won the LOEWE Craft Prize and the Victoria & Albert Museum purchased a fourth ceramic work and a drawing.
