Jenna Lee is a Gulumerridjin (Larrakia), Wardaman and KarraJarri Saltwater woman with mixed Japanese, Chinese, Filipino and Anglo-Australian ancestry. Jenna works across sculpture, installation, and body adornment to explore these overlapping identities.
"I think the biggest hurdle for a lot of my community is the feeling of space not being for them, but something that Craft has done, especially through the dedicated First Nations show... is slowly open that door.
It's been this very considered and gentle process around making sure that community felt welcome, that their families felt welcome, that the artists felt welcome."
Jenna is a Member of the Craft board, and was the inaugural curator of Craft's First People's led curatorial project. In 2021, she curated Elemental, an exhibition bringing together seven First Nations artists each working with the base elements of Water, Fire, Air and Earth as inspiration.
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Video created by James Westland, supported by Hotglue.
