Gary Philip Lee b. 1952

Also known as Gurrulan
  • Artist (Performance Artist),
  • Artist (Textile Artist / Fashion Designer),
  • Artist (Photographer)
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
Maast Maast, 2008
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
More Than My Skin, curated by Djon Mundine
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
Dirula - Contemporary Larrakia Art
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
Campsites, curated by Malcolm Smith
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
Love Magic: Erotics and Politics in Indigenous Art
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

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References [<ExternalResource: Ogden, John (2009), 'Portraits from a Land Without People', Cyclops Press and The Jimmy Little Foundation, A comprehensive survey of Aboriginal people as subject and practitioners of photography, in which Gary Lee's work is featured. (In press).>, <ExternalResource: Lee, Gary (article author), Fraser, Jenny (exhibition curator, catalogue editor) (2006), 'In the Mix, essay in Jenny Fraser's 'The Other APT', exhibition catalogue, also published as 'Les autres, the others: the touring exhibition of the other APT', for the exhibition's showing in Noumea, New Caledonia (Oct 08 to Feb 09)', The exhibition was first shown at Raw Space, Brisane (2006) and then toured to the Tjibao Cultural Centre, Noumea in 2008/09.>, <ExternalResource: Lee, Gary (11 June 2006), 'Oh, boy! The portraits of Gary Lee', Art Monthly Australia, Canberraurl:, .>, <ExternalResource: O'Riordan, Maurice (2001), ''Photograph as Performative Trace': Male photographic portraits in India, article in Art India, Vol. 6, Issue 4', Art News Magazine of India, Mumbai, India.>, <ExternalResource: James, Bruce (1998), 'Bablu-Milk Boy, Varanasi', Gary Lee artist profile in PHOTOFILE 55, 'Happy Snap', Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, NSW.>, <ExternalResource: Lee, Gary (co-editor) with Luthi, Bernhard (1993), 'ARATJARA: Art of the First Australians', Norrhein-Westfalen, Dusseldorf and the Australia Council, Sydney, NSW.>, <ExternalResource: Lee, Gary (2000), 'Picturing: Aboriginal social and political photography, and, Black Glory: Aboriginal erotica, in 'Artlink: Reconciliation? Indigenous art for the 21st century', Vol 20 # 1', Artlink, Adelaide.>, <ExternalResource: Lee, Gary (2000), 'Larrakia Artists, and (with Wendy Brady) Alternative Sexualities, in Kleinert, S and Neale, M (eds) The Oxford Companion to Aboriginal Art And Culture', Oxford University Press, South Melbourne.', Oxford University Press, South Melbourne.>] [<ExternalResource: Ogden, John (2009), 'Portraits from a Land Without People', Cyclops Press and The Jimmy Little Foundation, A comprehensive survey of Aboriginal people as subject and practitioners of photography, in which Gary Lee's work is featured. (In press).>, <ExternalResource: Lee, Gary (article author), Fraser, Jenny (exhibition curator, catalogue editor) (2006), 'In the Mix, essay in Jenny Fraser's 'The Other APT', exhibition catalogue, also published as 'Les autres, the others: the touring exhibition of the other APT', for the exhibition's showing in Noumea, New Caledonia (Oct 08 to Feb 09)', The exhibition was first shown at Raw Space, Brisane (2006) and then toured to the Tjibao Cultural Centre, Noumea in 2008/09.>, <ExternalResource: Lee, Gary (11 June 2006), 'Oh, boy! The portraits of Gary Lee', Art Monthly Australia, Canberraurl:, .>]