Lee-Ann Toyokawa is a New Zealand artist who grew up in Marlborough NZ and now lives in Nelson. She has a Visual Arts Diploma 1998 and a Visual Arts Degree 2005 from Nelson Marlborough Institute of Technology. “ For the past 13 years I have juggled my art practice with having and raising four children. My work is an ongoing theme concerning my identity in relation to motherhood and domesticity. My ideas are always evolving as I grow older and life changes. I use the cup motif repeatedly in my work this represents domesticity, nurturing and memories.”