Lee Scott Hempson is a lecturer in the Fashion and Textile programme at the Durban University of Technology where she teaches drawing and illustration, printing technologies and supervises post graduate students.
She grew up in
Rhodesia/Zimbabwe before moving to South Africa to finish off her schooling and
education in Fine Art. She sees her creative work not as a single idea or a
unitary concept but as an association of ideas, concepts, and themes that at
once reinforce and contradict each other.
This fusion /association
of ideas, she realises is what makes her craft rich in imagery. The ‘routes’ she has taken to get her to
this here and now, added to the acknowledgment that her ‘roots’ colour her perceptions of everything she experiences, are
directors of her creative inspiration, identity and individuality.
Her work is
emotive and evocative. It reflects a ‘double consciousness’ - this
consciousness, she feels, has allowed her to depict and amalgamate her many
interests and then fuse her ideas in a silhouetted form.
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