Agency Spotlight

Agency Spotlight

Agency Projects presents Leila Gurruwiwi and Jenna Lee in conversation (LIVE)

Wednesday 11th December, 12pm

Agency Spotlight is in conversation with Blindside's Josephine Mead and Agency Projects Public Programs lead Leila Gurruwiwi speaking on the year that was for Agency Projects including a chat with multidisciplinary FIrst Nations artist Jenna Lee.

Jenna Lee is a Gulumerridjin (Larrakia), Wardaman and KarraJarri Saltwater woman with mixed Japanese, Chinese, Filipino and Anglo-Australian ancestry. Using art to explore and celebrate her many overlapping identities, Lee works across sculpture, installation, and body adornment. She also works with moving images, photography and projection in the digital medium.

With a practice focused on materiality and ancestral material culture, Lee works with notions of the archive, histories of colonial collecting, and settler-colonial books and texts. Lee ritualistically analyses, deconstructs and reconstructs source material, language and books, transforming them into new forms of cultural beauty and pride, and presenting a tangibly translated book.

Formally trained as a graphic designer, Lee continues to work as an independent designer specialising in culturally informed book cover design, exhibition identity design, catalogue design and arts sector design

Agency Projects delivers a range of activities in Australia and overseas including art and built environment commissions, forums, digital initiatives and other innovative projects that increase profile and create wealth generation for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists, curators and cultural leaders.