Read about Eelyn's latest International Art Commission here.

about

 

Eelyn Lee is an award-winning artist and filmmaker who has exhibited across UK including Barbican, Tate Modern, National Portrait Gallery and Whitechapel Gallery as well as internationally in Paris, Berlin, Bogotá and Toronto.

Her art practice combines collective research, devised theatre, screen writing and filmmaking to create frameworks for collaboration. Eelyn's Hong Kong/English heritage motivates her interest in race, identity and ’othering’. Her moving image work, Four Quadrants of the Sky 四大神獸 was selected for the NAE Open 24, where she was awarded the Primary Residency Prize.
 
Eelyn co-wrote and directed, Born on Sunday Silent [2023], a short film funded by BFI Network and is currently developing her debut narrative feature film. Both films explore hidden stories from Britain's colonial past through genre based story-telling.

Watch Eelyn's narrative genre showreel here.

That we would see something translated so profoundly from a theatrical space to a cinematic one in just a handful of days is really extraordinary... A wonderful paradox."

Gareth Evans, film curator (Whitechapel Gallery) on Monster

News

IMAGE New International Art Commission

Wednesday, 29 January 2025
Eelyn has been commissioned to make a new piece of moving image work, to be exhibited at the Richmond Arts and Ideas Festival, 13-29 June, 2025; São Paulo Biennial, Sept, 2025, and the Karachi Biennial, Oct 2026. Building on her research and work made along the Thames Estuary in 2016, Eelyn will continue her exploration of the tidal Thames as a... Read More...

IMAGE Eelyn Lee in Conversation with Sci-Fi writer, Dr Yen Ooi

Thursday, 14 November 2024
An illustrated discussion with artist Eelyn Lee and writer-researcher, Dr Yen Ooi about their ongoing collaboration –a call and response creative dialogue between artist and writer. Drawing on migratory energies and ancestral stories, their work creates new orientations, shaped by East and Southeast Asian [ESEA] diasporic experiences. Book FREE... Read More...

IMAGE Ancestral Futures - A Street Procession in Sheffield

Thursday, 15 August 2024
Ancestral Futures 源流之後 is a processional street performance in honour of the first recorded Chinese people in Sheffield –a group of magicians on tour from China who performed at the Whitsuntide Festival, 1855. 

 On 31st May, 1855, the lead magician, Teh Kwei 德貴, buried his 5-week old baby in a Sheffield graveyard.... Read More...