(1975 - )
Mandy Lee Jandrell was born in Pretoria, South Africa, and studied at the National School of the Arts, Johannesburg (1993), and at Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town (1998). As a student in Cape Town, she joined The Sluice, an art group that collaborated on a major multimedia installation and performance event in 1996. She also exhibited work with the group at the Second Johannesburg Biennale in 1997. She went on to participate in numerous group exhibitions in South Africa, Zimbabwe and Germany.
In 1998 Jandrell moved to London, and completed an MA in Fine Art at Goldsmith’s College of Art in 2003. Since then she has continued to exhibit work regularly with recent shows in the UK, UAE and Colombia. Other curatorial projects include Three by Three with artist Yinka Shonibare (Guest Projects, London, 2008) and New Utopia (Bearspace, London, 2006).