Bovey Lee’s work in hand cut paper and site-specific installations focuses on the impact of migration on people and the environment, and human’s conflicting desires for the preservation of nature and urbanisation.

“Home Economics-Crocheting City” is inspired by the home economics course that I took in an all girls’ high school in Hong Kong where we learned various domestic skills such as cooking and knitting. The work celebrates women’s contribution beyond home management. Women are a major force in the history and development of society.

Born in Hong Kong and practicing Chinese calligraphy since the age of ten, Lee studied ink and oil paintings in her formative years, completing her BA degree in Fine Arts at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. In 1993, she moved to the United States as a painter and earned her first Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of California at Berkeley, and a second MFA in Digital Arts at Pratt Institute in New York. Her work has been exhibited extensively, including in shows at the Fuller Craft Museum, MA; Nevada Museum of Art; Museum of Craft & Design, CA; Brooklyn Museum of Art; Museum Bellerive, Zurich, Switzerland; Blackburn Museum, UK; Museum of Fine Arts, Beijing, China; Fukuoka Museum of Art, Japan; Hong Kong Museum of Art; Museum Rijswijk, The Netherlands; among others. Lee is a recipient of numerous academic and professional awards. Her work has been published in over twenty books and is represented in institutional and private collections. She currently lives and works in Los Angeles, California.