Jolene Liam is an artist and architect from Singapore. She believes that the spaces we inhabit and the objects we collect reveal a lot about us; expressions of our identities, habits, and personalities. Her background as an architect has fuelled an interest in observing and documenting how places are occupied and experienced. In the process, she hopes to encounter different ways of thinking about the places around us, from everyday and in-between spaces to imagined internal landscapes. 

Working in the expanded field of drawing enables Jolene to find new ways of interrogating space. The ‘in-between’ and the ‘not quite’ are her tools of choice, creating works that sit on the boundaries between drawing, painting, printmaking and sculpture. Breaking away from the confines of orthographic drawing lets her explore the gaps between conventional methods of representation, mapping things that cannot be measured.

Jolene studied on the Off-Site Programme at Turps Art School. Her work has been selected and shortlisted for several awards including the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize, Art Gemini Prize, Derwent Art Prize, World Illustration Awards, and Royal Institute of British Architects’ Eye Line Drawing Competition. She currently lives in London.