Cultivating Resilience Through Creative Expression.

Jemma Lee is a disabled artist; living and working in Kwakwaka’wakw traditional territories on Northern Vancouver Island in British Columbia.

Photography and Mixed Media

Words and Images From Twenty Five Years Living as a Settler on Indigenous Lands on the West Coast of Canada

The Acceptance Collection

All the work within this collection was created after I became disabled. Most were conceived while I was unable to ‘work’ in the real world, and thus I turned inwards in grief and outwards to the nature around me for comfort.

I learned ‘accepting the unacceptable’ was the only thing I could do. And in doing so, the creative spark had space to be, and grow, and that is what saves me.

Almost every day…

“What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through The Fire”

– Bukowski