Biography
Glynis Lee is an Australian artist and printmaker based in Kuranda, Queensland, whose practice spans mokuhanga, textile printing, silk paper and felt sculpture, artist books, natural dyeing, encaustic monotypes, watercolor, and installation work. Her enthusiasm for innovative print expressions has led her to explore prints in three-dimensional forms, pushing the boundaries of what printmaking can encompass.
Following a career change, Lee studied textile printing, printmaking, and visual arts at Charles Darwin University in the Northern Territory. She refined her printmaking skills through an Honours internship at Northern Editions Printmaking studio, and continued there as an editioning printmaker while completing a practice-based doctorate in visual arts.
Lee's artistic philosophy centers on conveying emotion, ideas, and thinking through imagery and layers, investigating a sense of belonging in multiple places while exploring cultural and environmental connections. She is deeply inspired by her natural surroundings, from microcosms of pattern and texture to broader landscapes of color, sound, light, and shadow.
Her mokuhanga work was featured in the exhibition 'Inheritance and Innovation: Mokuhanga Artists Explore Japanese Paper' at the Imadate Conference Center in Echizen, Japan, and she exhibited at the International Mokuhanga Conference Oceania exhibition in 2024. She is a member of the Kuranda Arts Co-op, where her work is exhibited alongside other regional artists.
Key Facts
- Nationality
- 🇦🇺Australia
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- Contemporary Mokuhanga
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Glynis Lee is an Australian artist and printmaker based in Kuranda, Queensland, whose practice spans mokuhanga, textile printing, silk paper and felt sculpture, artist books, natural dyeing, encaustic monotypes, watercolor, and installation work. Her enthusiasm for innovative print expressions has led her to explore prints in three-dimensional forms, pushing the boundaries of what printmaking can encompass.
Glynis Lee's work was shaped by the Contemporary Mokuhanga tradition in Japanese woodblock printmaking. Contemporary Mokuhanga: Contemporary mokuhanga (literally "wood-block print") encompasses artists working from approximately 1970 to the present who continue or reinvent traditional Japanese woodblock printing techniques.
Glynis Lee is a contemporary printmaker working in the mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock) tradition. Their work contributes to the living tradition of Japanese woodblock printing. Prices for contemporary mokuhanga prints range from $100 for smaller works to $1,500 for major compositions. Most prints sell in the $180–$600 range. The global mokuhanga community has been growing, with increasing exhibition opportunities and collector interest. Contemporary mokuhanga represents an affordable entry point for collectors.
