Statement
Clee is a Sheffield‑based artist working from Yorkshire Artspace, and an elected member of the Royal Society of Sculptors. Her practice centres on sculpture and installation, sometimes incorporating text, sound and her own body as material. She works extensively with steel wire, shaping it through slow, intuitive labour into raw, ethereal or dissonant forms, or weaving it — literally or metaphorically — through salvaged objects and fragments of earlier pieces to connect ideas across time and space. Writing is part of this process too, used as another material to interrupt or redirect.
Her work examines invisibility and voicelessness and the political weight of occupying the periphery — the unstable ground between belonging and exclusion. By refusing the tidy coherence expected by normative structures, her pieces become forms of embodied communication, using objects as stand‑ins for the silenced body and its alternative ways of organising experience. These gestures trace lines between historical and contemporary silencing, making visible the continuities that determine who is heard and who is not. Collaboration runs through this approach, informing decisions, guiding processes and creating space for marginalised narratives to surface while challenging expectations of form, language and expression.