Jasmine Lee is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice is shaped by manufacturing systems, labour and process. Working between digital and physical media, she develops diagrammatic structures informed by over a decade in food production. Her work emerges through repetition, test pieces and process-led enquiry, produced from a home studio built on a former factory site.
Her diagrams are developed in Adobe Illustrator and translated into physical form through a curatorial selection of paper types and metal plates. This process frames digital compositions as material objects, capturing the polished, aspirational aesthetics of corporate white-collar identity and echoes of sleek corporate signage.
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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.
Acknowledgments
‘Through this work, I hope that I will be able to accept my differences as a neurodivergent artist, honour my role models, bring justice to those who have been discriminated against for being different, and honour my former peers who have had similar enquiries but weren’t fortunate enough to continue.’
CV
Jasmine Lee
Visual Artist | Curator | Artist Researcher
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 – Current
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
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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