About Me
I am a multi-disciplinary artist who works with textiles, colour, and movement to create sculpture, installation, and performance artworks that explore art as disability access and care.
Creative access has been a central component of my work for many years, and I enjoy creating immersive and playful work that encourages discourse on what it means to provide care, for yourself or others. My most recent works have explored rest, stimming and energetic movement, sleep, and how ritual can be incorporated into self-care. I enjoy working in an experimental manner, and often find that elements of my practice cross over into my own care practices at home.
My works tend towards human scale, and are designed to sit on, alongside, or around the body. Most of my work is experiential, and I encourage audiences to engage with the work using multiple senses, including touch.
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Artist Biography
Bailee is a queer, disabled artist born in Whanganui, Aotearoa, 1989 . She graduated from the University of New South Wales – Art and Design in 2018 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts, Honours. She is a founding member of the performance collective Show Us Your Teeth and served on the committee of the Sydney based ARI AIRspace Projects. In 2018 she co-curated In Motion; a festival and three-week exhibition that incorporated video, kinetic sculpture, performance, and sound based work. Her work Restful Heart was selected as the Supreme Award Winner in Changing Threads Contemporary Textile and Fibre Art Awards, 2021. Bailee works with video, electronics, textiles and light to create immersive installation and performance work.
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Bailee currently lives and works in Te Whanganui-A-Tara, Aotearoa (Wellington, New Zealand), where she practices from her home studio.