Jennifer Lee is internationally recognised as a leading name in British studio ceramics.
Born in Scotland, Lee began her ceramic studies at Edinburgh College of Art from 1975 to 1979. On graduating, Lee was awarded a scholarship, allowing her to spend eight months travelling the United States researching South-West Native American prehistoric ceramics and meeting contemporary West Coast potters. From 1980 to 1983, Lee continued her studies in ceramics at the Royal College of Art.
Lee’s distinctive pots are hand-built, the small bases pinched then coiled to create a balance asymmetry, with subdued colours and subtle texture built up using metallic oxides mixed in with the clay body.
Jennife Lee lives and works in London, regularly exhibiting in the UK, across Europe, Australia and Japan. Her work is held in over forty museums and public collections worldwide. In 2009, Lee was invited by Issey Miyake to exhibit at his foundation 21_21 Design Sight. In the exhibition her pots appeared to float on a vast pool of water behind which cascaded a thirty meter waterfall. Lee has won numerous awards for her work and in 2018 Lee won the Loewe Craft Prize, an award initiated by Jonathan Anderson in 2017. She was awarded with an OBE in 2021 for services to ceramics.
Maak regularly sells important works by Jennifer Lee both at auction and as Private Sales.
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