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

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

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’S EXHIBITION PROFILED ON ‘THE DESIGN FILES’

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

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…

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RHYS LEE’S EXHIBITION SPIT SHINE PROFILED BY ASHLEY CRAWFORD IN CURRENT ISSUE OF ‘ART COLLECTOR’ ISSUE 77

The senior artist Gareth Sansom recently made a comment about a Rhys Lee work on Instagram, suggesting that the painting shouldn’t work, “but it does.” Over a recent lunch he convinced Lee that the comment was meant as an utter compliment, however Sansom’s comment certainly was astute: There is always something “wrong” with Rhys Lee’s…

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NICHOLAS THOMPSON GALLERY, RHYS LEE IN ‘THE AUSTRALIAN FINANCIAL REVIEW’ ARTICLE ON SYDNEY CONTEMPORARY

“New at the fair this year are Melbourne’s Nicholas Thompson Gallery, which opened in March and is taking work by painter Rhys Lee” Link to article here: www.afr.com/…/a-lot-riding-on-the-success-of-sydney-contemporary-2015

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