29 January 2025 New International Art Commission Eelyn has been commissioned to make a new piece of moving image work, to be exhibited at the Richmond Arts and Ideas Festival, 13-29 June, 2025; São Paulo Biennial, Sept, 2025, and the Karachi Bienni…
14 November 2024 Eelyn Lee in Conversation with Sci-Fi writer, Dr Yen Ooi An illustrated discussion with artist Eelyn Lee and writer-researcher, Dr Yen Ooi about their ongoing collaboration –a call and response creative dialogue between artist and writer. Drawing on migrat…
15 August 2024 Ancestral Futures - A Street Procession in Sheffield Ancestral Futures 源流之後 is a processional street performance in honour of the first recorded Chinese people in Sheffield –a group of magicians on tour from China who performed at the Whitsuntide F…
22 July 2024 Eelyn Awarded Primary Residency Prize Last week Eelyn was awarded the Primary Residency Prize - one of the main awards of the New Art Exchange [NAE] Open, 2024. In October, 2025, Eelyn will spend a month at Primary - an artist-led contem…
21 September 2023 Roundtable: Mythmaking & Martial Arts Film Bloc Projects are excited to host artist Eelyn Lee and martial arts and film scholar Dr Wayne Wong in a special roundtable chaired by Co-Director (Programme) Dr Sunshine Wong. Eelyn's recent work Fo…
28 August 2023 Four Quadrants of the Sky Exhibition Opens 14th Sept Four Quadrants of the Sky 四大神獸 completes the second cycle of Performing Identities, an expansive collaborative project that reimagines diasporic East and Southeast Asian [ESEA] identities through…
27 October 2022 Hong Kong Future Diaspora Online Roundtable 3rd Nov 7pm On Thursday 3rd Nov I'll be joining a conversation about diaspora and Hong Kongness as part of my exhibition, Hong Kong Future Diaspora at Bloc Projects. Thu 3 Nov 7-8.30pm [GMT] Free but booking…
06 October 2022 Hong Kong Future Diaspora: 21 Oct - 19 Nov I will be exhibitiing work in progress from my latest project, Hong Kong Future Diaspora in a solo show at Bloc Projects, with a special opening performance at the launch event on Thurs 20th Oct 6-…
12 January 2022 'Mixed Other' - Discussing Liminal Identity with The Other Checkbox Podcast Last year I had a chat with @theothercheckbox about how my mixed race experiences relate to equal opportunities monitoring forms - which for me generally means only being offered the option of…
06 June 2021 New Work at Encounter Bow I will be presenting new work in progress at this year's Encounter Bow, a one-day festival [Sat 12th June] exploring community care, spaces of joy and the importance of sharing and collecting stories…
22 April 2021 Casting Fu Manchu at Estuary 2021 Casting Fu Manchu will be showing as part of this year's Estuary 2021. Programmed as part of The Telling Image, curator Gareth Evans has collated ten short films that respond to the festival's themes…
04 March 2021 gal-dem x Kickstarer Workshop I'll be talking about Community, Care and Change at this online event hosted by gal-dem and Kickstarter. 'Arrive with an Idea Leave with a Plan' is a virtual workshop aimed at equipping people…
15 February 2021 Casting Fu Manchu Now Showing at CAN Festival 2021 Casting Fu Manchu is currently showing as part of the CAN Festival 2021 [15th Feb - 30th Apr 2021]. Following the premiere screening these were some of the comments about the film, "... a brilliant…
04 February 2021 Premiere of Where Two Rivers Meet My latest film, Where Two Rivers Meet will premiere on Feb 25th at 8pm GMT as part of the online event, Digesting History. The film is a creative documentary about Collections in Verse, a poetry proj…
01 December 2020 Resilience and Radical Care - An Online Talk Following an invitation from CAMP, I will be presenting an online talk on Thurs 10th Dec 6.30 - 8.00pm GMT as part of their guest artist's programme. I'll be talking about Resilience and Radical Care…
03 November 2020 Premiere of Casting Fu Manchu My latest film, Casting Fu Manchu will premiere on 1st December at 7pm GMT. Commissioned from an open call by Chinese Arts Now [CAN], the film explores Yellow Peril in light of COVID related ra…
16 October 2020 Freedom - A Parallel State Event I've been co-curating the upcoming Parallel State event around the theme of Freedom. The event will be broadcast from a virtual Bristol, a few days after the US elections. Speakers include Dr S…
13 October 2020 Film, Sound & Memory - A Creative Writing Workshop I've been invited by Write and Shine to facilitate an early morning creative writing workshop inspired by film. The session that will explore the narrative of sound and takes inspiration from t…
26 September 2020 'Multiplicities in Flux' in Manchester Britishness (2019) will be featured in a new exhibition at the Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art [CFCCA] in Manchester [15th Oct 2020 - 31st Jan 2021]. Multiplicities in Flux brings together…
01 August 2020 Solidarity - A Parallel State Event Eelyn Lee has curated the next online Parallel State event around the theme of Solidarity. Speakers include Désirée Reynolds [Sheffield], Chardine Taylor-Stone [London], Jade Montserrat [North Yorksh…
27 May 2020 Eelyn Lee Awarded New Film Commission Delighted to announce that Eelyn Lee has been awarded a commission from Chinese Art Now [CAN] to realise her new film project, Casting Fu Manchu. Eelyn's project is one of six new CAN Digital C…
09 April 2020 Talking Identity & Purpose at Creative Mornings, Sheffield Eelyn will be talking about her practice in relation to the themes of identity and purpose at this month's Creative Mornings Sheffield. Usually these breakfast events take place at different venues a…
12 March 2020 Eelyn to Talk at gal-dem x Kickstarer Event Eelyn will be talking about 'Sustaining Your Creative Practice' at a special event organised by gal-dem and Kickstarter. Part of a tour of events aimed at equipping women and non-binary people of col…
10 March 2020 Britishness Screening at Festival of Debate Excited to annouce that Museums Sheffield will be holding a screening of Britishness on 21st April as part of this year's Festival of Debate. The film will be followed by a panel disucssion with film…
