Tanya Lee is a female Western Australian artist originally from a remote wheat belt town and now based in Perth. Tanya works across sculpture, performance and drawing. Her practice looks at everyday tasks to create humorous, absurd and even futile narratives that subvert the protocols and politics of every day social environments. Her work has been shown in galleries across Australia including the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art in Melbourne. Her recent performance work Landing has toured nationally and been presented at Dark Mofo Hobart, the Festival of Live Art in Melbourne and Bleach* Festival on the Gold Coast.
Tanya’s studies included a year as a visiting scholar at the École Nationale Supérieur d’Art de Dijon (ENSAD) in Dijon, France. Before completing her MA (Fine Art) at Curtin University in 2009.