Kerry Ann Lee is an artist, designer and educator based in Wellington, New Zealand. Her work: Home Made: Picturing Chinese Settlement in New Zealand celebrates an alternative cultural history through cut-paper, paint, found text and images. Mixed media collages, paper-cuttings and a lavishly illustrated artist book, explore both personal and local experiences of Chinese settlement in New Zealand, both the Chinese face behind the takeout counter and the home customs housed behind the plastic ribbon curtain.

This articulate and heartfelt body of work comprising of original collages, paper cuts, prints and installation work, toured as a national exhibition in New Zealand between August 2008 – March 2009 and gathered public attention with feature appearances on Asia Down Under and Saturday with Kim Hill. Paper-cuttings from the exhibition featured as a selected finalist work in the Wallace Art Awards 2008 at The New Dowse Art Museum. Kerry Ann will also be undertaking an artist residency at the Island6 Arts Centre in Shanghai in September 2009.

Kerry Ann is currently in New York on an Artist residency at SVA. Asian American Arts Centre will be hosting an artist talk by Kerry Ann; entitled Home Made: Picturing Chinese Settlement in New Zealand. This event is open to the public.

The talk will provide an overview of the project and expands the discussion on the Cantonese Diaspora to focus on the Chinese settlement in New Zealand.

A limited edition of the Home Made artist book will be available for purchase at the forum.

Kerry Ann Lee's visit is generously supported by Fulbright New Zealand and the New Zealand Chinese Poll Tax Heritage Trust.

Admission is FREE. EVERYONE is invited. This event is organized by Adliana Bahrin.

Asian American Arts Centre, 26 Bowery, 3rd floor, (Between Pell and Bayard Street. Red door to the right of McDonald's)

Tel: 212-233-2154 / 917-923-8118 | Web: www.artspiral.org.

Gallery hours are Monday through Friday, 12:30 - 6:30PM