Harper's Bazaar Australia

LIFE IN FULL COLOUR

Before becoming the woman behind the works in some of the coolest new venue openings and most highly foot-trafficked public spaces, Sydney artist Vicki Lee had an awakening of sorts in the bathroom at the commercial litigation firm where she worked. Having spent five years studying law and just 10 months practising it, she was sitting alone in a cubicle just to escape the minutiae of her day when she realised: “I was bored out of my fucking brain. I went straight to my desk and resigned.”

Lee had always been creative, but says pursuing a white collar profession was “a Korean immigrant family thing.

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