7. Jenna Lee Bauble (1 of 3) 2025

Jenna Lee, paper text fragments, plastic bauble, L 10cm, W 9cm, D 9cm. 

Jenna Lee is a First Nations Gulumerridjin (Larrakia), Wardaman, and KarraJarri Saltwater woman, with mixed Japanese, Chinese, Filipino, and Anglo-Australian (Irish and Scottish) heritage. Her art is deeply influenced by her father’s teachings of culture and her mother’s paper craft, inspiring her to create works that transform the scars of colonialism into expressions of cultural beauty and pride.

Jenna’s bauble sits firmly within her practice. Using torn and cut pages from old dictionaries that contain inaccurate and pan-Aboriginal language references, she places these fragments into delicate see-through baubles. Suspended inside, the remnants speak to the ongoing process of questioning, dismantling and re-authoring inherited colonial narratives.

Jenna is also the artist behind the Aboriginal Art Co logo! Her work addresses the appropriation of this traditional symbol, once a marker of Aboriginal innovation, and reclaims its true cultural significance. In 2025, Jenna exhibited her work in the Fish Lane Vitrines and presented an artist talk in collaboration with the Queensland Museum as part of World Science Week.

Jenna Lee is represented by MARS Gallery, Melbourne.