Artists

Lee Harper

BCA (Hons.), Dip Art, Craft & Design

Lee Harper is a contemporary arts practitioner living and working in Ōtautahi, Christchurch.                                           

Lee defines her practice as multi-disciplinary – sculpture, cloth, installation and performance. Lee provokes matters which speak to the human condition and express narratives, based on the everyday business of living a life. She tells us about ourselves, be it in death or life or the daily quagmire of what surrounds us. Lee’s fondness for ‘narrative and cloth’ has developed into a conscious component of her practice. These complex cloths act as archives for contemporary and personal narratives which blend the contemporaneous of art and craft. She is particularity interested in ‘distance, place, space and separation’, with her latest works focusing on an inability as a migrant to ‘reminisce’ in a place which presents as the ‘unknown’.