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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Name
Gary Philip Lee
Also known as Gurrulan (This is a name conferred through his mother's association with Arnhem Land communities.)
Gender
Male
Roles
  • Artist (Performance Artist)
  • Artist (Textile Artist / Fashion Designer)
  • Artist (Photographer)
Other Occupation
  • Curator (ANZSIC code: 6924)
  • Writer (ANZSIC code: 9002)
  • Designer (ANZSIC code: 6924)
  • Anthropologist (ANZSIC code: 6910)
Birth date
1952
Active Period
  • 1980-
Residence
  • Katherine, NT
  • Darwin, NT
  • Sydney, NSW
  • Canberra, ACT
Training
  • Ph.D, studio-based, 2005- School of Creative Arts and Humanities, Charles Darwin University
  • Bachelor of Arts, Honours in Art, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT
Indigenous Australian
 
Heritage Country
  • Broome, WA
  • Darwin, NT
Indigenous Language Groups
  • Wadaman
  • Jaru
  • Larrakia
Languages
  • English
Initial Record Data Source
  • Storylines Project, COFA, UNSW
Copyright
  • Lee, Gary

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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:, .>]