Artist and designer Lucy Dawei was born in Beijing China, and grew up in Tkaronto. She lives to learn about more cultures’ histories and art forms, to experience other landscapes and the power of natural phenomena through travel.

Throughout her life and art practice, she has explored her fascination with biology and the natural world. She works to integrate her explorations into her mixed cultural identity, her own life, as well as her curiosity with science into her art practice.

Her current collection of works, explore the tension between movement and stillness by using two talisman animals; the soft body and graceful fins of goldfish, and the praying mantis, whose stillness is predatorial, its body architectural. It’s a dichotomy of her experience as a person who sits on many edges: multiple cultures, queerness, and work in a male-dominated field. Watercolor is a medium that traditionally flows and blends. To  use it  to produce sharp edges, and hard surfaces, pushes the medium into tension.