First Nations artist Jenna Lee appointed to Craft Victoria Board
Jenna Lee, Photo: Rhett Hammerton.
MELBOURNE
.-Craft Victoria announced the appointment of experienced First Nations artist Jenna Lee to the Board as a Craft Industry Professional non-Executive Director.
Ms Lee is a Larrakia, Wardaman and Karajarri woman who also has Chinese, Japanese, Filipino and Anglo-Australian ancestry. Her interdisciplinary art practice works across painting, projection, found object and sculpture, with a reoccurring use of paper, the book, language, and text.
Craft Victoria Chair, Katrina Raymond, said Ms Lee brings a unique industry professional maker perspective which will be invaluable in supporting strategic planning and in helping the organisation to assist our Members in building professional and sustainable craft careers.
Event description
Join curator Miriam Kelly in conversation with finalists Darcey Bella Arnold, Daniel Jenatsch, Ryan Presley, and JD Reforma. About this Event
Darcey Bella Arnold is a Melbourne-based artist. Her work is a meditation on language, image-making and familial relationships.
Daniel Jenatsch is a Melbourne-based artist and composer. His work is concerned with how knowledge and power inform our social and mental ecologies.
Ryan Presley is a Brisbane-based artist of Marri Ngarr and Scandinavian descent. His practice audits and critiques politics, power, history, remembrance, and human behaviour.
JD Reforma is a Sydney-based interdisciplinary artist. His work negotiates the lived experiences of the Asian-Australian diasporas, popular culture, political dynasticism and cultural imperialism.