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b. 1956 -

Jennifer Lee was born in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, in 1956.

From 1975 to 1979 she studied ceramics and tapestry at Edinburgh College of Art. She then spent eight months on a travelling scholarship to the USA where she researched South-West Indian prehistoric ceramics and visited contemporary West Coast potters.

From 1980 to 1983 she continued her work in ceramics at the Royal College of Art in London. Since then her travels have included trips to Egypt, India, Australia and Japan as well as Europe and the USA.

Lee's pots are hand built and she has developed a method of colouring them by mixing metallic oxides into the clay before making.

Jennifer Lee has had retrospective exhibitions of her work at the Röhsska Musset in Göteborg, Sweden in 1993, and the Aberdeen Museum and Art Gallery, Scotland in 1994. Her work is represented in major public collections worldwide, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, The Philadelphia Museum of Art and Los Angeles County Museum. In 2008 the Victoria & Albert Museum purchased a third work for their collection.

In 2009 she was invited by Issey Miyake to exhibit at his foundation 21_21 Design Sight for the exhibition 'U-Tsu-Wa'. The installation was designed by Japanese architect Tadao Ando - her pots appeared to float on a vast pool of water behind which cascaded a thirty metre waterfall.

She returned to Japan in autumn 2013 to take part in the International Ceramic Art Festival in Sasama, Shizuoka and she was a guest artist in residence at Shigaraki Ceramic Culture Park for two months in 2014 and for three months in 2015.

In 2018 Lee won the Loewe Craft Prize, an award initiated by Jonathan Anderson. The prize was presented to her by Helen Mirren at an awards ceremony at The Design Museum in London.

Jennifer Lee lives and works in London and regularly exhibits in London, Japan and Sydney.