As part of our ongoing Grow At Home programme of online events we meet local artists who share insights into their work & practice and engage in an interactive Q&A with the audience.

Join our zoom talk on Monday 1 February with London based artist Lee Maelzer. Lee is drawn to discarded objects and abandoned places, her work often begins with photographs, either taken or found, damaged or altered. The resulting paintings and montages possess a ghostly quality and a 'sense of human presence where we are left to consider our own traces and what we leave behind'.

Lee studied at Royal College of Art for her Master’s Degree in Fine Art, painting. She is a senior lecturer in Fine Art at the University of East London at BA where she also supervises at Professional Doctorate level. Since 2005 she has had nine solo exhibitions and has exhibited widely in group shows in the UK and internationally. She has also curated seven exhibitions in London galleries.She received the Bryan Robertson Trust Award, 2019, The Abbey Fellowship at The British School at Rome, 2004, participated twice in Bloomberg ARTFutures, was shortlisted for the East London Painting Prize, the Celeste Art Prize and twice shortlisted for the John Moores Painting Prize.

This event is part of a cultural programme of events celebrating the creativity and diversity of Grow’s events programme and is supported by the Government’s Cultural Recovery Grant, administered by Arts Council England