She was born in Hong Kong and lives in Pittsburgh. Paper cutting is a folk art in China. The cut outs were used to decorate doors and windows. In the past every girl had to practice her cutting skills. (yigou41 2010)
Bovey Lee`s paper-cuts are extremely powerful, depicting the political situations, catastrophe survival.
She had many exhibitions in many different places across the world. (Netfirms, 2009)
In 1995 she started to use the computer in her work. She wants to create a connection between nature, human and technology as she explains: "To do so, I create digital photographs, titled Body Garden, that transform my own body parts into landscapes and still lifes. These highly realistic, hybrid images decipher the blur between reality and deception." (artasiamerica, 2001)
picture available at: http://lesyeuxdelalune.blogspot.co.uk/2010/06/du-papier-decoupe.html accessed 25 April 2012
picture available at: http://lesyeuxdelalune.blogspot.co.uk/2010/06/du-papier-decoupe.html accessed 25 April 2012
picture available at: http://lesyeuxdelalune.blogspot.co.uk/2010/06/du-papier-decoupe.html accessed 25 April 2012
picture available at: http://www.juxtapoz.com/Gallery/image?format=raw&id=25681&type=orig accessed 25 April 2012
Yigou41 (2010) Chinese Paper Cutting Tutorial Available at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkTV6enoXUY (accessed: 26 April 2012)
Netfirms (2009) Bovey Lee Bio Available at:http://boveylee.netfirms.com/rframe/about/boveyleebio.pdf (accessed: 26 April 2012)
Artasiamerica 2001, Lee, Bovey available at: http://artasiamerica.org/artist/detail/197
(accessed at 26 April 2012)
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