Uploaded July 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 day ago
Jennifer Tee is a Dutch artist whose poetic installations explore transformation, memory, and the unseen forces connecting people, places and beliefs. For Folkestone Triennial 2025: How Lies the Land?, she presents Oceans Tree of Life—a sculptural tribute to kelp forests, made from hand-formed, sea-glass-infused bricks echoing underwater movement and marine life. Drawing inspiration from Rachel Carson’s The Edge of the Sea, Tee links ancient fossils to fragile ecologies. Her wider practice spans sculpture, textile and collage, often exploring hybridity and cultural exchange through layered materials and symbolic forms. She lives and works in Amsterdam.
ABOUT CREATIVE FOLKESTONE
Creative Folkestone is a visionary arts charity and placemaking organisation dedicated to making Folkestone a great place to live, work, play, study and visit. Creative Folkestone believes in the power of art and creativity to encourage positive social change and should be open and accessible to all. Since 2002, Creative Folkestone have been transforming Folkestone through several key projects including Folkestone Artworks, Folkestone Book Festival, Creative Quarter, Folkestone Triennial and Quarterhouse. Through all these projects we enable people to get creative. In 2021, Creative Folkestone also became custodians of Prospect Cottage, the former home of Derek Jarman, following a successful campaign to save the property for the nation in partnership with Art Fund and Tate.
Film by Oliver Parkin
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instagram.com/oliver_filmmaker
Jennifer Tee is a Dutch artist whose poetic installations explore transformation, memory, and the unseen forces connecting people, places and beliefs. For Folkestone Triennial 2025: How Lies the Land?, she presents Oceans Tree of Life—a sculptural tribute to kelp forests, made from hand-formed, sea-glass-infused bricks echoing underwater movement and marine life. Drawing inspiration from Rachel Carson’s The Edge of the Sea, Tee links ancient fossils to fragile ecologies. Her wider practice spans sculpture, textile and collage, often exploring hybridity and cultural exchange through layered materials and symbolic forms. She lives and works in Amsterdam.
ABOUT CREATIVE FOLKESTONE
Creative Folkestone is a visionary arts charity and placemaking organisation dedicated to making Folkestone a great place to live, work, play, study and visit. Creative Folkestone believes in the power of art and creativity to encourage positive social change and should be open and accessible to all. Since 2002, Creative Folkestone have been transforming Folkestone through several key projects including Folkestone Artworks, Folkestone Book Festival, Creative Quarter, Folkestone Triennial and Quarterhouse. Through all these projects we enable people to get creative. In 2021, Creative Folkestone also became custodians of Prospect Cottage, the former home of Derek Jarman, following a successful campaign to save the property for the nation in partnership with Art Fund and Tate.
Film by Oliver Parkin
oliverparkin.com
instagram.com/oliver_filmmaker
