Ockham Lecture: Connections between Connections with Kerry Ann Lee

5.30pm doors
6pm talk starts

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Our current exhibition, spans several years of research by Kerry Ann Lee – the latest outcome of a ‘localised transnational intergenerational story about placemaking through printmaking.’

This lecture will explore the creative whakapapa across time, people and places located at the heart of this work. Focusing on ornament, printmaking, and ephemera, Lee willl present a narrative that reveals emotional landscapes living in the space between the studio and the pull of wanderlust into the field.

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Kerry Ann Lee is a visual artist, designer and researcher whose interdisciplinary practice spans art, design and publishing. Her work explores cultural identity, diaspora and heritage, drawing on Chinese New Zealand histories and global perspectives. Her creative collaborations have included projects with the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center, residencies at the School of Visual Arts NYC, SOMA México, Taipei Artist Village, Santa Fe Art Institute and Yellow Brick Athens, presentations at Booked: Hong Kong Art Book Fair and Sprint Milano, and exhibitions at the Beijing International Art Biennale, Shanghai Art Museum and Te Papa Tongarewa Museum of New Zealand.

As Associate Professor in Design, she teaches Illustration, Visual Communication Design and Critical and Contextual Studies across various undergraduate and postgraduate programmes at Toi Rauwhārangi, College of Creative Arts at Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa Massey University.

Kerry Ann Lee draws on shared experiences with as inspiration for . They both are from Te Whanganui a Tara Wellington, share Cantonese heritage, and are alumni from Ngā Pae Māhutonga, the Wellington School of Design at Massey University. Like Ngan, Lee’s work is informed by cultural hybridity in Aotearoa, the Asia-Pacific and beyond.

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The Ockham Lecture series is an annual programme of lectures and panel discussions across different themes that critically engage with craft, design and architecture. This programme is supported by Objectspace's Lead Partner Ockham Residential.

Images:

Header: Kerry Ann Lee, photograph by Terra Poirier

Above: A Chop That Breathes: Kerry Ann Lee, 27 Mar–31 May 2026 at Objectspace, photograph by Sam Hartnett

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