Jennifer Lee's first London exhibition in five years will open at Erskine, Hall & Coe in October. Lee's vessels are hand-built from flattened coils. She has developed a method of colouring them by mixing metallic oxides into the clay. The mixed coloured clays are sometimes left to mature for years - even decades - before being used.

Born in Aberdeenshire, Scotland in 1956, Lee studied at the Royal College of Art. She has travelled extensively and exhibited in America, Australia, Japan and elsewhere. Her work is highly sought after throughout the world both by private collectors and public collections.

Since her last exhibition in London in 2008, she has held solo exhibitions in America and Australia and was invited in 2009 by Issey Miyake to exhibit in Tokyo at his foundation, 21_21 Design Sight in the exhibition 'U-Tsu-Wa, Lucie Rie, Jennifer Lee, Ernst Gamperl. The exhibition was directed by Issey Miyake and designed by Tadao Ando.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Los Angeles County Museum as well as the Victoria and Albert Museum are among the many institutions that have acquired her work.

As Edmund de Waal noted: "Lee has managed that rare thing: to own a language of form and tone. She now has the freedom to inflect that language with a subtle and distinctive voice."

The exhibition at Erskine, Hall & Coe will comprise of 18 works and several drawings. A catalogue accompanying the exhibition will include an essay by Emma Crichton-Miller.

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