Florence Yuk Ki Lee is an animation artist who works in 2D digital animation, using a hand-drawn frame-by-frame process to create subtle abstract narratives using dynamic brushstrokes and colours.
Florence Yuk Ki Lee was born in 1994 in Hong Kong. She is an animation artist and co-founder of No Reason Studio. Her works of art explore the extraordinary in the ordinary, expressing her emotional, aesthetic and poetic responses to places that she has formed a sense of connectivity with, often from a perspective which is anchored to her cultural identity. She works in 2D digital animation, using a hand-drawn frame-by-frame process to create subtle abstract narratives using dynamic brushstrokes and colours.
Her work has been shown at festivals and institutions around the world, including official selection for Annecy International Animation Film Festival 2022, World Festival of Animated Film-Animafest Zagreb 2022, MONSTRA (Lisbon, 2022), TIFF(Tirana, 2021), ANIMAFILM (Azerbaijan, 2021), TIAF(Tbilisi, 2021) and SUPERNOVA (United States, 2021). She was an award winner of the Los Angeles Animation Festival in 2021. In the same year, she was awarded a Special Jury Award at Tatsuno International Film Festival, and also nominated for the Kuandu Animation Award at Kuandu International Animation Festival (Taiwan). Her work is included in "Mon-OEil" by the Centre Pompidou.
Florence completed a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Graphic Design, Moving Image Specialism at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London in 2016 and went on to obtain an MFA from the School of Creative Media at City University of Hong Kong in 2021.