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Gary Philip Lee b. 1952

Also known as Gurrulan

Gary Lee is a Larrakia artist who has worked as a designer and curator and is now primarily a photographer.

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exhibited at

Date: August 2008 - September 2008
Place: 24HR Art NT Centre for Contemporary Art
Description: Lee’s first solo exhibition, coinciding with the Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award in Darwin
Type: Exhibition

exhibited at

Date: February 2008 - April 2008
Place: Campbelltown Art Centre, NSW
Description: The exhibition focused on male Aboriginal photographers, with an extra focus on those utilising black-and-white imagery. Artists featured: Michael Riley, Mervyn Bishop, Michael Aird, Peter McKenzie, Ricky Maynard and Gary Lee. Scheduled to tour NT.
Type: Exhibition

exhibited at

Date: 2002
Place: 24HR Art NT Centre for Contemporary Art, NT
Description: curated by Gary Lee, including the work of his brothers Roque and Tony Lee, among other Larrakia artists.
Type: Exhibition

exhibited at

Date: 2001
Place: Darwin Visual Arts Association, Darwin
Description: “Campsites” included the work of Gary Lee, Nairn Scott and Bradley Alderson. Lee exhibited 'Nice Coloured Boys’, 160 colour snapshot photographs. This was how the artist originally intended the Nice Coloured Boys series to be shown, as a (shrine-like) collection of snapshots.
Type: Exhibition

exhibited at

Date: 1999
Place: S.H. Ervin Gallery part of Perspecta 99
Description: Part of Perspecta 1999. Curated by Gary Lee and Maurice O’Riordan, with over 60 works representing 30-plus artists, including a photographic work from Gary Lee (from the Nice Coloured Boys series)
Type: Exhibition