Gary Philip Lee b. 1952

Also known as Gurrulan, Gary Lee
  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator),
  • Artist (Textile Artist / Fashion Designer),
  • Artist (Photographer)
Gary Lee is a Larrakia artist who has worked as a designer in a range of media, a curator and now works primarily as a photographer.
Tags: photographer, textile artist, cartoonist

Citations

  • 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).

  • 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.

  • Lee, Gary (11 June 2006), 'Oh, boy! The portraits of Gary Lee’, Art Monthly Australia, Canberraurl:, .

  • 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.

  • James, Bruce (1998), 'Bablu-Milk Boy, Varanasi’, Gary Lee artist profile in PHOTOFILE 55, 'Happy Snap’, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, NSW.

  • Lee, Gary (co-editor) with Luthi, Bernhard (1993), 'ARATJARA: Art of the First Australians’, Norrhein-Westfalen, Dusseldorf and the Australia Council, Sydney, NSW.

  • 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.

  • 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.

See also

  • ''Artlink', Vol. 25, # 2, Adelaide, 2005, Cover.', Cover of Artlink with 'Shaba' 2004 portrait , and accompanying article 'The Larrakia Legacy of Billiamook'.
  • 'Pakula, Karen, 'Sydney Morning Herald' (Spectrum Section), NSW, 2 February, 2008', Self-portrait with Manish, reproduced in article in relation to the 'More Than My Skin' exhibition.
  • 'Chapman, Chris 'Just about men' Art Monthly Australia, # 209, May 2008, pp. 25-28.', Images from 'Skin' series published in article reviewing 'More Than My Skin'.
  • 'catalogue for TogArt NT Contemporary Art exhibition, 2006.', 'Mei Kim and Minnie' (2006).
  • 'catalogue for exhibition 'Hand in Hand', curated by Jenny Fraser and Shigeyuki Kihara, Feb-April 2008', 'Chottu Diptych 1'.
  • 'Merlini, Marie-Helene, 'Lumiere sur des artistes de l'ombre', in 'Les Nouvelles', Saturday 1 Nov 2008', Shaba #3 (2006), reproduced with article in the New Caledonian newspaper 'Les Nouvelles'. The article was in connection with Noumea exhibition of Jenny Fraser curated show, The Other APT/Les Autres.
  • 'Murray, Daena. Review for TogArt NT Contemporary Art exhibition, 'Art Monthly Australia', # 195, Nov 2006', 'Mei Kim and Minnie'.
  • ''Photofile' editions 55 (1998, for Bablu, Milk Boy series and 68 (2003, for Skin series)', Artist profiles.

Initial data sources

  • Storylines Project, COFA, UNSW