heather lee

Heather Lee

she/her

Multi-disciplinary artist & designer

Heather Lee is a RMIT Fashion Design student who has recently based herself in Naarm to continue her creative and artistic endeavours. Previously studying at ANU, BA Visual Art and Art History & Curatorship, Heather majored in painting as she typically works in an abstract style that allows her to take on an impulsive and spontaneous approach. Her exploration of colour and composition is highly intense yet balanced with a subtle play of layers and translucency.

Heather’s intention to combine contrasting elements of line, colour and texture is also practiced through her graphic/digital collages, textile constructions and ceramics. Fashion has pushed her to advance her creative exploration to problem solve and combine her artistic background with the design world.

Bon AppleTits

Textiles, Coil Basket Weaving

A Room of One’s Own / ANU EXHIBITION 2019

Nipple Bra

Textiles, Coil Basket Weaving 2020

Employing basket weaving techniques, this table arrangement emphasises women being subjected to roles as a domestic housewife and the expectations in preparing a meal for her husband and family. The artwork intends to highlight the labour divide at home and how women sacrifice their careers in order to support their husband’s opportunity in the workforce. The use of textile techniques further encompasses traditional art forms of female history as typical elements of the dinner table such a serving trays, pots and crockery are appropriated into an array of breasts/nipples, depicting connotations of the female anatomy.

PaperCutz

Photoshop Collage 2019

This series of fashion inspired collages represents the diversity of design and materiality and how existing garments and objects can work and respond to each other. The intersecting formats are strategically balanced to enhance the complementary hues and colour palettes whilst also playing with subtle textures through translucent layers. There is a sense of unification between the collage series through cutting and re-configuring images to transform the composition as a whole. Each print has their own individual mood and personality depicted through the repeated textures and mix-match edits.

Silicone Textile

This textile exposes a raw representation that ultimately embodies a grotesque yet elegant depiction of the second skin. The natural drape of the swatches all together hang effortlessly as the sliced fabric creates a diverse and experimental range of textures that enhance each other. By physically dissecting the fabric, this textile is extremely active and responsive to the nature of the human body. Each piece is uniquely fabricated to reveal different energies that intimately portray the delicacy of negative and positive space. I have been able to experiment creatively with the flexibility and malleability of the textures that cling and stretch over the body as well as being hung on its own. The textile as a whole has the ability to embody its own ambiguous and abstract construction that allows it to become life-like and extremely respondent to different environments. Thus, the textile obtains its own natural body that speaks for itself, whether being draped onto a figure or hung independently.

Return from the Prairie

The shoot aims to reveal a provocative yet sophisticated collection that enhances themes of sexuality, diversity and identity. A sense of hard-edge glamour powerfully emulates throughout the series, as the model (Leigh) is purposefully stylised to embody a strong, individualistic woman that is set free at her own will. Depicting elements of elegance and desirability through intimate portraits or cropped, close up frameworks. Thus, the series is an adventurous outlook.

Fashion / Styling Photoshoot 2021

Talent Leigh Shapiro-Ellis

Make-up by Sarah Zilberman