Untitled

Lee's untitled woodblock prints emerge from a practice that treats mokuhanga as one element within a broader investigation of pattern, surface, and material. Her training began in textile printing at Charles Darwin University before extending into printmaking, and that lineage remains visible in her sensitivity to repeat motif, color layering, and the tactility of the printed surface. Working from Kuranda — a rainforest village on the Atherton Tableland in tropical north Queensland — Lee draws frequently on the botanical and ecological forms of her immediate environment. Untitled compositions typically build through sequential block impressions, with water-based pigments allowing for transparent overlays and softened tonal shifts. The print may employ [bokashi](/glossary/bokashi) gradations achieved by graded inking on a single block, a technique requiring careful management of moisture in both the pigment and the dampened [kozo](/glossary/kozo) paper. Her Honours internship and later editioning experience at Northern Editions Printmaking studio in Darwin underpin the technical control evident in her sheet-based work.