Claire Lee (b. 1976 Hong Kong, based in London) is a visual artist working mainly in drawings and paintings but also producing objects, photography, and poetry. Her works explore poetic imagination on the human psyche. She draws inspiration from contrasts, struggles and resilience in human conditions, finding solace through meditative experiments with tactile materials, textures, and layers in her works. Her work has been exhibited in solo, group exhibitions and art fairs in Asia and abroad.

The ruin calls for a dreamer; the aftermath of a destruction allows one to dream of peace. The broken land speaks to what we think we need protection from.

In the work “Amidst the Debris”, I brought the broken materials back together by drawing attention to the pain and beauty around the flaws and vulnerabilities, sunk in the very scattered elements that were meant to exclude, as the textures and shades in white quietly uncovering details of the moments in time and separateness left by human progress. As an immigrant myself I tried to put own challenges into perspective and explored in imaginative interpretations on the quality of being together. I started connecting the debris by drawing twisted lines resemble drift, and human fingerprints seamless pattern, fills the distance a sense of a bond of commonality and a feeling of oneness.

In times of surging global instabilities, the exercise of imagination has never been more important. My new series is about transcendent in its uncertainties through journey of change, the transformation that often begins with brokenness and the true humility it produces.