RHYS LEE

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BIOGRAPHY

Rhys Lee has held solo exhibitions since 2000 in Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, Sydney and internationally in New York, Los Angeles, Germany, Paris and New Zealand. His work has been included in group exhibitions at Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne (2019), the Ian Potter Museum, Melbourne (2015), the Archibald Prize at the Art Gallery of New South Wales (2012), Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery (2001), The University of Queensland National Artist's Self Portrait Prize (2009), the Doug Moran Prize at the State Library of New South Wales (2009) and international commercial galleries in the USA, UK, Germany, France and Belgium. Rhys Lee has a Bachelor of Visual Arts, Graphic Design from the Queensland College of Art (1997). A monograph on the artist was published in 2009. Lee's work is in the collections of the National Gallery of Australia; the National Library of France; Mima Museum, Brussels and Artbank.

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Rhys Lee 'Skull 1' 2022 oil on canvas 58 x 86 cm
Rhys Lee 'Skull 2' 2022 oil on canvas 54 x 44 cm
Rhys Lee 'Goodboy' 2018 bronze, edition 1/1 48 x 45 x 35 cm
Rhys Lee 'A good time' 2023 ceramic and oil paint 30 x 21 x 20 cm
Rhys Lee 'Double skull' 2017 oil on canvas 203 x 127 cm
Rhys Lee 'The storm' 2016 oil on canvas 66 x 112 cm
Rhys Lee 'Look and see' 2014/2023 earthenware and oil paint 36 x 22 x 16 cm
Rhys Lee 'The final act' 2014 earthenware and oil paint 21 x 17 x 11 cm
Rhys Lee 'City' 2020 oil on canvas 107 x 91.5 cm
Rhys Lee 'Fuzzy papuan' 2023 oil on canvas 72 x 67 cm
Rhys Lee 'Athens orange tree cat' 2023 oil on canvas 98 x 77.5 cm
Rhys Lee 'Reflection of a painter on a cold day' 2022 oil on canvas 60 x 96 cm
Rhys Lee 'Moonshine quest' 2019 oil on canvas 205 x 163 cm
Rhys Lee 'The dog sitter' 2019 oil on canvas 158 x 138 cm
Rhys Lee 'Arrangements' 2021 oil on canvas 100 x 88 cm
Rhys Lee 'Apple tree court' 2021 oil on canvas 97 x 86.5 cm
Rhys Lee 'Bouquet for a friend ' 2021 oil on canvas 97 x 86.5 cm
Rhys Lee 'The maid of Orleans' 2021 oil on canvas 86 x 76 cm
Rhys Lee 'Flowers in blue light' 2021 unframed pastel on paper 76 x 56 cm
Rhys Lee 'Red apple still life' 2021 unframed pastel and charcoal on paper 76 x 56 cm
Rhys Lee 'The dog handler' 2020 unframed pastel on paper 76 x 56 cm
Rhys Lee 'In the mirror' 2021 unframed pastel on paper 76 x 56 cm
Rhys Lee 'Bouquet for a friend 2' 2021 unframed pastel on paper 76 x 56 cm
Rhys Lee 'Casper's still life' 2021 unframed pastel on paper 76 x 56 cm
Rhys Lee 'Pelicans, painting and basketball' 2021 unframed pastel on paper 76 x 56 cm
Rhys Lee 'Wobbly frog' 2020 unframed pastel on paper 76 x 56 cm
Rhys Lee 'Flowers, apple and basketball' 2021 unframed pastel and shellac on paper 76 x 56 cm
Rhys Lee 'The professor' 2021 unframed pastel on paper 76 x 56 cm
Rhys Lee 'Dog friendly' 2020 unframed pastel on paper 76 x 56 cm
Rhys Lee 'Tropical storm' 2021 unframed ink on paper 76 x 56 cm
Rhys Lee 'Basketball' 2021 unframed pastel and ink on paper 76 x 56 cm
Rhys Lee 'Rexy's king' 2021 unframed pastel on paper 76 x 56 cm
Rhys Lee 'Untitled 3' 2020 mixed media on paper 76 x 56 cm
Rhys Lee 'Untitled 4' 2020 mixed media on paper 76 x 56 cm
Rhys Lee 'Untitled 2' 2020 mixed media on paper 76 x 56 cm
Rhys Lee 'Untitled 8' 2020 mixed media on paper 76 x 56 cm
Rhys Lee 'Untitled 7' 2020 mixed media on paper 76 x 56 cm
Rhys Lee 'Untitled (NTG1831)' 2016 mixed media on paper 57 x 38 cm
Rhys Lee 'Untitled (NTG1813)' 2018 mixed media on paper 76 x 57 cm
Rhys Lee 'Untitled (NTG1815)' 2018 mixed media on paper 76 x 57 cm
Rhys Lee 'No. 99' 2019 mixed media on paper 38 x 28 cm
Rhys Lee 'No. 131' 2019 mixed media on paper 38 x 28 cm
Rhys Lee 'No. 95' 2019 mixed media on paper 38 x 28 cm
Rhys Lee 'No. 138' 2019 mixed media on paper 38 x 28 cm
Rhys Lee 'No. 132' 2019 mixed media on paper 38 x 28 cm
Rhys Lee 'No. 57' 2019 mixed media on paper 56 x 38 cm
Rhys Lee 'No. 23' 2019 mixed media on paper 56 x 38 cm
Rhys Lee 'No. 1' 2019 mixed media on paper 56 x 38 cm
Rhys Lee 'No. 82' 2019 mixed media on paper 38 x 28 cm

PAST EXHIBITIONS

WEATHER MAPS (2023)
MELBOURNE ART FAIR (2022)
RECENT PAINTINGS (2021)
RECENT PAINTINGS (2020)
SMALL WORKS - WITH MCLEAN EDWARDS (2019)
RECENT PAINTINGS (2019)
WHISTLE WORLD (2018)
10 PAINTINGS & 100 DRAWINGS (2017)
SPIT SHINE (2016)
MASK OF THE FEMALE CRANE FLY (SYDNEY CONTEMPORARY 2015)

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RHYS LEE AND HEIDI YARDLEY PRESENT SURVEY EXHIBITIONS IN CONJUNCTION WITH 3:33 ART PROJECTS FOR THE CLAYTON UTZ ART PARTNERSHIP, MELBOURNE FROM NOVEMBER 2018 TO MAY 2019

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RHYS LEE EXHIBITION ‘WHISTLE WORLD’ PREVIEWED IN VAULT ART MAGAZINE

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Queensland College of Art graduate Rhys Lee’s latest exhibition at Nicholas Thompson Gallery follows on from a sprawling exhibition he staged there in 2017, entitled 10 Paintings and 100 Drawings. This 2018 iteration is considerably smaller in scale. Whistle Work is made up of only nine medium to large paintings, but it takes off from where the artist…

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RHYS LEE ‘WHISTLE WORLD’ OFFICIAL MELBOURNE ART WEEK EVENT

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Rhys Lee: Whistle World Friday, 3 August, 2018 11:00 am – 5:00 pm Nicholas Thompson Gallery, 155 Langridge Street, Collingwood   Whistle World is an exhibition of nine new paintings by Victorian-based artist, Rhys Lee. With a Bachelor of Visual Arts, Graphic Design from the Queensland College of Art (1997), Lee has held solo exhibitions…

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RHYS LEE ARTICLE BY ALISON KUBLER IN CURRENT ISSUE OF ART COLLECTOR

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RHYS LEE’S EXHIBITION PROFILED ON ‘THE DESIGN FILES’

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Rhys Lee Shares ‘10 Paintings and 100 Drawings’ ART ‘I always want to show everything that I make… get it out there! Otherwise it just sits in a studio pile or gallery stockroom,’ tells artist Rhys Lee. In his current, epic exhibition at Nicholas Thomson Gallery, he’s certainly been able to showcase a great deal of his…

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RHYS LEE EXHIBITION PREVIEWED IN CURRENT ISSUE OF ART ALMANAC

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Rhys Lee: Ten Paintings and One Hundred Drawings 29 September 2017 | Elli Walsh Rhys Lee’s painted protagonists slide between shapes and species like hallucinatory projections of subliminal currents. Bestial snouts and anthropoidean faces flicker with the familiar and strange, knocking humanity off its evolutionary throne into a shadowy subterranean world where renegade cowboys and…