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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Darwin Lad
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From Lee’s Nymgololo series, this was his first work selected for the Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award.

 
creator of
Mei Kim and Minnie
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Mei Kim and Minnie, exhibited in the inaugural “TogArt NT Contemporary Art” exhibition,also exhibited in Territorial, 2006, an exhibition of NT and ACT artists. This work has been purchased by the Museum and Art Gallery NT. Self-portrait with Manish I, exhibited in “More than my skin” (2008) at Campbelltown Art Centre. The artist refers to this work as 'the NATSIAA-reject’ work, as he believes the fact of its Indian/Hindu reference disqualified in the eyes of the pre-selectors for the 2003 National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award for which it was entered.

 
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Shannon as Billiamook
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This work, a diptych, came about through the deliberate placement of a photo of Billiamook by Paul Foelsche next to a photo of Shannon (Lee’s nephew, the work 'Shaba’, 2004) in the exhibition “Billiamook”, CDU Gallery, Darwin. This was exhibited (along with Mei Kim and Minnie) in the exhibition “Territorial”, 2006 (a pairing of NT and ACT artists, curated by Andy Ewing and David Broker).

 
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Shaba
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A portrait of Gary Lee’s nephew, Shannon Lee (aka Shaba), initially shown in the exhibition “Billiamook” which Lee co-curated with Sylvia Kleinert at the Charles Darwin University Gallery, Darwin. This photo was reproduced on the cover of Artlink, Vol 25, No. 2, an issue guest edited by Cath Bowdler on the theme of 'Remote’.

 
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Self-portrait with Manish 1
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Exhibited in “More Than My Skin” (2008) at Campbelltown Art Centre. The artist refers to this work as 'the NATSIAA-reject’ work, as he believes the fact of its Indian/Hindu reference disqualified in the eyes of the pre-selectors for the 2003 National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award for which it was entered.

 

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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:, .>]