Jane Lee
Jane Lee, aka Messy Desk, winner of international awards including – 1st-Runner up JIA Illustration Award Japan Illustrator’s Association 2016, The Best Illustration (Advertising) 4th Greater China Illustration Award 2016, Concours Jeunes Talents at Angouleme International Comic Festival France 2012…etc. Jane’s drawing is full of joyful characters, animals, happy faces inter-waving between buildings, rainbow and even outer space, her art is carefully crafted stroke after stroke, the result is high density landscape with an explosion of colour, frantic as it might seem at first glance, while on close inspection each piece of her art is full of emotional stories, like charming little treasures hidden in plain sight, awaiting to be discovered.
Jane’s mural paintings have been exhibited in China, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Poland, United State, and United Kingdom. The one in Finland has received APOLI-tunnustus environmental design award from Urban Forms.
Awards
- Winning Work Prize, JIA Illustration Award , Japan Illustrator’s Association
- 1st-Runner up, 4th Greater China illustration award, The Best Illustration (Advertising)
- First-Runner Up, ODOYO X MiLK [Create Your Own Skin] iphone Case Design Competition (Hong Kong)
- Nominees of Artaq Awards 2012 (France)
- Selected as Concours Jeunes Talents 2012 （France）
- selected as inaugural Illustration competition winners, Print Magazine’s “Hand Drawn” Illustration Competition （New York）
- Nomination Award, Worldwide Chinese University Students Design Competition （China）
- Sliver and Merit, Graphic Design in China 2009 （China）
- Certificate of Excellence, The Best Illustration Award
- Merit of Open Category, The Link ECO illustration Competition
- Second Prize, Nuance-Watson Green Poster Design Competition
- Prospect Award, Epson Color Imaging Contest 2008
- Selected Entry, Hong Kong Mobile Art Gallery 2008 competitionNuance-Watson
Group exhibitions (selected)
- Design Festa Tokyo, Tokyo Big Sight (2016)
- Fumetto International Comix Festival, Switzerland (2016)
- Art Basil, PMQ, Hong Kong (2016)
- Fundacja Urban Forms, Łódź, Poland (2016)
- Design Festa Tokyo, Tokyo Big Sight (2015)
- Double Getfreaky at Zébulon + Monde Monderne at Le Monde Monderne , France (2014)
- CAGIBI GETFREAKY at Le Cagibi, Lille (2013)
- le festival Artaq à Angers(2012 )
- Artaq PARIS 2012 ESPACE CARDIN (2012 )
- GETFREAKY PARIS at Belleville (2013)
- Get Freaky London at Workshop44 (2012)
- La Pavillon Jeunes Talents, Festival International de la Bande Dessinée, France (2012)
- L’expo Get Freaky, Micro Marché de Bruxelles,France (2012)
- Get Freaky Illustration Exhibiton, Frollein Langner, Berlin (2011)
- Get Freaky 4” Le Monde Modern, Lille, France (2011)
- Get freaky 5”, Hôtel de Guines, Arras, France. (2011)
- This is a Comic Book Show” Mahan Gallery, Ohio, U.S.A (2009)
- FUMETTO festival centre, Kornschütte ,Luzern, Switzerland (2010)
- Na Modern Spleen,Le Nouveau Monde,Angoulême (2009)
Education
- Higher Diploma in Graphic Information Design, Hong Kong Design Institutes (2010)
- The « Discovery Scholarship: Art Market and Conviviality in Paris » , L’Institut d’Etudes Supérieures des Arts (Paris) 2011
Scholarship
- VTC Outstanding Students Award 08/09
- The « Discovery Scholarship: Art Market and Conviviality in Paris », L’Institut d’Etudes Supérieures des Arts (Paris)