Dr Lee Harrop was awarded her PhD at Charles Darwin University, Australia. She has a Master of Fine Arts, First Class Honours, from Whitecliffe College of Arts and Design, New Zealand. Her artworks offer a representation of mining to be considered alongside the wider global discourse surrounding mining and its environmental impact.

Harrop has won several art awards including the Footscray Art Prize and Busselton Art Award. She has been a finalist in numerous awards including The Bunbury Biennale, Fremantle Art Centre Print Award, The Blake Prize, Wyndham Art Prize, The Alice Prize, Fisher’s Ghost Art Award, The Waterhouse Science Art Prize, Pro Hart Outback Prize, Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize, Heysen Art Prize, Northern Beaches Environmental Art and Design Prize, Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award, Deakin University Contemporary Small Sculpture Award, Incinerator Art Award, Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize and Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi and Cottesloe.