Warren Lee

The prompts for my work are the collective challenges of our world today and, more importantly, our responses to them. My work is research-based, with attention to investigation, interpretation and data, as well as its making. I seek conceptual networks of symbols, themes and prior events to engage viewers and, hopefully, establish a context of interest and engagement.

I feel unease at the current escalation in global tensions, particularly as we are now at a time when the horrors of Hiroshima/Nagasaki in 1945 are distant and fading from living memory. This body of work, collectively entitled Half Life, started with AUKUS - because of this issue of fading memory and escalating risk. It utilises digital processes in its production, revealing an interface between imagery, systems and technology, through visual linkages of organizational grids, dot matrix text and flower bursts.