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Eelyn Awarded Primary Residency Prize

NAE Awards 2024

Last week Eelyn was awarded the Primary Residency Prize - one of the main awards of the New Art Exchange [NAE] Open, 2024. In October, 2025, Eelyn will spend a month at Primary - an artist-led contemporary visual arts organisation - developing new work. She will also preent a public programme event. Come say hello if you're in Nottingham.

Eelyn's, Four Quadrants of the Sky 四大神獸 was selected for NAE Open 2024 through a competitive open application process for Nottinghamshire-based artists and Global Ethic majority artists living anywhere in the UK. 
'... The NAE Open is not just an exhibition—it’s a stepping stone for growth and recognition....' - NAE

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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...